Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 287 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0745315437
,
0745315380
,
1849645027
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1435660803
,
9780745315430
,
9780745315386
,
9781849645027
,
9781435660809
Content:
Explores who -- and why -- American society punishes, using examples from literature and film
Content:
The birth of a prison nation -- The scarlet letter and the long forever of Puritan punishment -- Reading the Rosenbergs : The public burning and the Book of Daniel -- Punishment, resistance, and the African-American experience -- The whip, the noose, the cell, and their lover : Melville and masochism -- Inside the American prison film -- Image burn : a Minority report on the future of US punishment
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0745315380
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780745315386
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jarvis, Brian Cruel and unusual London ; Sterling, Va : Pluto Press, 2004
Language:
English
URL:
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