The death penalty in American cinema : criminality and and retribution in Hollywood film
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The death penalty in American cinema : criminality and and retribution in Hollywood film
（Cinema and society series）
I.B. Tauris, 2014
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Bibliography: p. 251-256
Includes index
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内容説明
Killing as punishment in the USA, whether ordained by lynch mob or by the courts, reflects a paradox of the American nation: liberal, pluralistic, yet prone to lethal violence. This book examines the encounter between the legal history of the death penalty in America and its cinematic representations, through a comprehensive narrative and historical view of films dealing with this genre, from the silent era to the present. It addresses central issues including racial prejudice and attitudes towards the execution of women, and discusses how cinema has chosen to deal with them. It explores how such films as Michael Curtiz's 20,000 Years in Sing Sing and Fritz Lang's The Fury, Errol Morris's documentary The Thin Blue Line, John Singleton's Rosewood and Frank Darabont's death-row movie The Green Mile, have helped to shape real historical developments and public perceptions by bringing into sharper relief the legal, social and cultural tensions associated with capital punishment. In the process, Yvonne Kozlovksy-Golan provides the reader with a superb understanding of the complexities of the death penalty through US history.
目次
Introduction
Chapter 1 Law, Fiction and Death
Introduction: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood Film
Silent Film: The Death Penalty as a Social Problem and as Popular Entertainment
Censorship and Manipulation: The Difficult Years
The Golden Age of Legal Cinema
...And Justice for All: Legal Cinema since the 1960s
Chapter 2 The Death Penalty in the United States
Historical Aspects of Culture, Society and Law
Progress and Creativity in the Service of Death
A Living Penalty: How Much Longer?
Chapter 3 A Cinematic Window to Problems Concerning the Death Penalty
Legal Controversy as a Cinematic Event
A Particularly Subjective Objectivity: The Jury Problem
Strange Fruit
The Mentally Retarded and the Mentally Ill on Death Row
Old Enough to Die
Forbidden Relationships
Technological and Procedural Innovation in the Service of Death
Chapter 4 Death Becomes Them: Women on the Gallows
2.1.The Winning Formula: Women, Gallows, Camera
Off with Their Heads: Politics, Monarchy, and Religion
Female Spies and Patriotism in Film
From the Gallows Chamber to Iconic Status
Between Drama and Musical Comedy: Life (and Death) as a Circus
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