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Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars
Kevin Kehrwald
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Description for Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars
Hardback. Series: Short Cuts. Num Pages: 144 pages, 16 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Often considered an offshoot of the gangster film, the prison film precedes the gangster film and is in many ways its opposite. Rather than focusing on tragic figures heading for a fall, the prison film focuses on fallen characters seeking redemption. The gangster's perverse pursuit of the American dream is irrelevant to the prisoner for whom that dream has already failed. At their core, prison films are about self-preservation at the hands of oppressive authority. Like history itself, prison films display long ... Read more
Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Often considered an offshoot of the gangster film, the prison film precedes the gangster film and is in many ways its opposite. Rather than focusing on tragic figures heading for a fall, the prison film focuses on fallen characters seeking redemption. The gangster's perverse pursuit of the American dream is irrelevant to the prisoner for whom that dream has already failed. At their core, prison films are about self-preservation at the hands of oppressive authority. Like history itself, prison films display long ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Short Cuts
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231181143
SKU
V9780231181143
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About Kevin Kehrwald
Kevin Kehrwald is professor of English and coordinator of the film studies program at Frostburg State University.
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