Sale!

Punishment in Popular Culture 1st Edition by Charles J Ogletree Jr, Austin Sarat ISBN 9781479878680 1479878685

Name: Punishment in Popular Culture 1st Edition by Charles J Ogletree Jr, Austin Sarat ISBN 9781479878680 1479878685
SKU: EB-51334396
Availability: InStock

Original price was: $50.00.Current price is: $25.00.

Punishment in Popular Culture 1st Edition Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Charles J. Ogletree Jr.; Austin Sarat; Charles Ogletree Jr

ISBN(s): 9781479878680, 1479878685

Edition: 1

File Details: EPUB, 7.41 MB

Year: 2015

Language: English

SKU: EB-51334396 Category: Uncategorized Tags: Austin Sarat, Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Charles Ogletree Jr

Description

Punishment in Popular Culture 1st Edition by Charles J Ogletree Jr, Austin Sarat – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9781479878680 ,1479878685
Full download Punishment in Popular Culture 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 1479878685
ISBN 13: 9781479878680
Author: Charles J Ogletree Jr, Austin Sarat

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 portraits and connect them to broader political and cultural themes? Do television and film help to undermine punishment’s moral claims? And how are developments in the boarder political economy reflected in the ways punishment appears in mass culture? Finally, how are images of punishment received by their audiences? It is to these questions that Punishment in Popular Culture is addressed.

Punishment in Popular Culture 1st Edition Table of contents:

Part I: Punishment as Spectacle

Public Justice and the Media Stage
- Court TV and the Theater of Crime
- Executions and Audience in Film and News
Reality Crime and the Performance of Guilt
- True Crime Shows and Their Cultural Meaning
- The Rise of “Infotainment” in Punishment Narratives
The Death Penalty in Film and Television
- Hollywood’s Role in Shaping Public Perception
- From Dead Man Walking to The Green Mile

Part II: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Punishment

Racialized Justice in American Media
- Representing Black and Brown Bodies in Chains
- Punishment, Policing, and Power on Screen
Gender and the Punished Body
- Women, Deviance, and Media Shaming
- Punishment Narratives in Female-Centered Dramas
The Myth of the Just Punishment
- Examining Moral Narratives in Popular Culture
- Who Deserves Punishment—and Who Decides?

Part III: Punishment and the Penal Imaginary

The Prison on the Big Screen
- Iconic Prison Films and What They Reveal
- Solitary Confinement, Redemption, and Rebellion
The Carceral State in Fiction
- Punishment in Dystopian Literature and Film
- Orwell, Atwood, and the Persistence of Surveillance
Punishment in Comics and Graphic Novels
- Superheroes, Villains, and Vigilante Justice
- The Punisher and the Politics of Retribution

Part IV: Resistance, Redemption, and Possibility

Reimagining Justice through Popular Culture
- From Retribution to Restoration
- Cultural Artifacts that Challenge the Status Quo
Popular Culture as a Site of Resistance
- Music, Protest, and the Power to Reframe Punishment
- The Role of Hip-Hop and Spoken Word
Conclusion – Cultural Critique and Legal Reform
Austin Sarat & Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
- Toward a More Reflective Public Discourse
- Where Law, Media, and Culture Intersect