Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars

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Prison Movies

Cinema Behind Bars

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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

Kevin Kehrwald is professor of English and coordinator of the film studies program at Frostburg State University.

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

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

February 14, 2017

eBook ISBN:

9780231851046

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

144

Other:

16 b&w illustrations

https://doi.org/10.7312/sega18190

eBook ISBN: 9780231851046

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Professional and scholarly;