Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars

✍ Scribed by Kevin Kehrwald

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 129
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction: After the Crime is Over
1. Prison Films of Pre-Code Hollywood: Big Houses, Death Houses and Chain Gangs
2. Women’s Prison Films of the 1950s and Early 1960s
3. Identity and Violence in Popular Prison Films from the 1960s to the 1990s
Afterword: Post-9/11 Prison Movies and the Era of Mass Incarceration
Bibliography
Index

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