Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction: After the Crime is Over 1
5. 1. Prison Films of Pre-Code Hollywood: Big Houses, Death Houses and Chain Gangs 17
6. 2. Women’s Prison Films of the 1950s and Early 1960s 44
7. 3. Identity and Violence in Popular Prison Films from the 1960s to the 1990s 68
8. Afterword: Post-9/11 Prison Movies and the Era of Mass Incarceration 99
9. Bibliography 112
10. Index 118