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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154609303321

Titolo

The arts of imprisonment : control, resistance and empowerment / / edited by Leonidas K. Cheliotis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-24122-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Advances in Criminology

Altri autori (Persone)

CheliotisLeonidas K. <1977->

Disciplina

700/.4556

Soggetti

Arts in prisons

Prisons in art

Prisons in literature

Prisoners as artists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Aesthetics and an-aesthetics : the architecture of incarceration / Yvonne Jewkes -- 2. Telling prison stories : the spectacle of punishment and the criminological imagination / Eamonn Carrabine -- 3. Victor Hugo and Octave Mirbeau : a sociological analysis of imprisonment in fiction / Vincenzo Ruggiero -- 4. Masculinity, violence, and art in Tennessee Williams' Not about nightingales / Thomas Fahy -- 5. Social documentary in prison : the art of catching the state in the act of punishment / Michelle Brown -- 6. Thug life : hip hop's curious relationship with criminal justice / andré douglas pond cummings -- 7. Art, constraint and memory : Egon Schiele in prison / W.B. Carnochan -- 8. 'The haircut's on the house' : Rebetika songs and Greek prisons / Stathis Gauntlett -- 9. Art and autonomy : prison writers under siege / Robert Johnson -- 10. Prose and cons : autobiographical writing by British prisoners / Mike Nellis -- 11. Resistance or propaganda, self-expression or solipsism? : prison writing and the Red Army Faction prisoners in West Germany, 1973-77 / Sarah Colvin -- 12. 'Safe havens' : the formation and practice of prison choirs in the US / Mary L. Cohen -- 13. Teaching and learning : the pedagogy of arts education in prison settings / Rachel Marie-Crane Williams -- 14. Comparing art therapy in prisons to 'arts-in-



corrections' : process to product and back again / David Gussak -- 15. Creative encounters : whatever happened to the arts in prisons? / Alexandra Cox and Loraine Gelsthorpe -- 16. Harmony behind bars : evaluating the therapeutic potential of a prison-based music programme / Léon Digard  and Alison Liebling -- 17. Awaiting justice in South African prisons : performing human rights in a state of exception / Aylwyn Walsh.