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Punishment in Popular Culture by Ogletree, Charles J. Jr. (editor);Sarat, Austin (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The way a society punishes demonstrates its commitment to standards of judgment and justice, its distinctive views of blame and responsibility, and its particular way of responding to evil. Punishment in Popular Culture examines the cultural presuppositions that undergird America’s distinctive approach to punishment and analyzes punishment as a set of images, a spectacle of condemnation. It recognizes that the semiotics of punishment is all around us, not just in the architecture of the prison, or the speech made by a judge as she sends someone to the penal colony, but in both “high” and “popular” culture iconography, in novels, television, and film. This book brings together distinguished scholars of punishment and experts in media studies in an unusual juxtaposition of disciplines and perspectives. Americans continue to lock up more people for longer periods of time than most other nations, to use the death penalty, and to racialize punishment in remarkable ways. How are these facts of American penal life reflected in the portraits of punishment that Americans regularly encounter on television and in film? What are the conventions of genre which help to familiarize those portrait

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Author

Ogletree, Charles J. Jr. (editor);Sarat, Austin (editor)

Publisher

New York University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781479878680

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Law, History