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Prison Movies
Cinema Behind Bars
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Kevin Kehrwald
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English
Published/Copyright:
2017
About this book
Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present.
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Kevin Kehrwald is professor of English and coordinator of the film studies program at Frostburg State University.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: After the Crime is Over
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1. Prison Films of Pre-Code Hollywood: Big Houses, Death Houses and Chain Gangs
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2. Women’s Prison Films of the 1950s and Early 1960s
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3. Identity and Violence in Popular Prison Films from the 1960s to the 1990s
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Afterword: Post-9/11 Prison Movies and the Era of Mass Incarceration
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
February 14, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9780231851046
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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144
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16 b&w illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780231851046
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
