1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480547003321

Autore

Sarat Austin

Titolo

Punishment in Popular Culture / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : New York University Press, , [2015]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©[2015]

ISBN

1-4798-7868-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Collana

The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute series on race and justice

Disciplina

791.436556

Soggetti

Tv-sändning

Film - historia

Straff - i filmen

Strafe

Todesstrafe

Fernsehsendung

Film

Television broadcasting

Punishment on television

Punishment in motion pictures

Motion pictures

05.39 mass communication and mass media: other

71.65 criminality as a social problem

Television broadcasting - United States

Motion pictures - United States - History

History

Electronic books.

Förenta staterna

Verenigde Staten

USA

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Imaging punishment: an introduction / Charles Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat -- Redeeming the lost war: backlash films and the rise of the punitive state / Lary May -- Better Here than There: Prison Narratives in Reality Television / Aurora Wallace -- The Spectacle of Punishment and the "Melodramatic Imagination" in the Classical-Era Prison Film: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) and Brute Force (1947) / Kristen Whissel -- "Deserve Ain't Got Nothing to Do with It": The Deconstruction of Moral Justifications for Punishment through The Wire / Kristin Henning -- Rehabilitating Violence: White Masculinity and Harsh Punishment in 1990s Popular Culture / Daniel LaChance -- Scenes of Execution: Spectatorship, Political Responsibility, and State Killing in American Film / Austin Sarat, Madeline Chan, Maia Cole, Melissa Lang, Nicholas Schcolnik, Jasjaap Sidhu, and Nica Siegel -- The pleasures of punishment: complicity, spectatorship, and Abu Ghraib / Amy Adler -- Images of Injustice / Brandon L. Garrett.

Sommario/riassunto

"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. It recognizes that the semiotics of punishment is all around us, 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?And how are images of punishment received by their audiences? It is to these questions that Punishment in Popular Culture is addressed"--Unedited summary from book cover.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790266903321

Titolo

The Columbia history of Jews and Judaism in America / / edited by Marc Lee Raphael

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 490 pages)

Disciplina

973.04924

973/.04924

Soggetti

Jews - United States - History

Judaism - United States - History

Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

America's earliest Jewish settlers, 1654-1820 / Eli Faber -- Expanding Jewish life in America, 1826-1901 / Dianne Ashton -- The great wave : Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States, 1880-1924 / Eric L. Goldstein -- American Judaism between the two world wars / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- Triumph, accommodation, and resistance : American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Influence and affluence, 1967-2000 / Stephen J. Whitfield -- The ever dying denomination : American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965 / Kimmy Caplan -- The history of Jewish education in America, 1700-2000 / Melissa R. Klapper -- A regional context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930 / William Toll -- Fun and games : the American Jewish social club / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- A multithematic approach to Southern Jewish history / Mark K. Bauman -- American Jewish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust / Rafael Medoff -- Holocaust consciousness and American Jewish politics / Michael E. Staub -- What is American Jewish culture? / Jeffrey Shandler -- Rites of citizenship : Jewish celebrations of the nation / Beth S. Wenger -- A bright new constellation : feminism and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell -- Contemporary Jewish thought / Alan T. Levenson -- There's no space like home : the representation of Jewish American life / Linda S. Raphael.



Sommario/riassunto

This collection focuses on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience. It opens with essays on early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in America (1820-1901), the great wave of eastern European Jewish immigrants (1880-1924), the character of American Judaism between the two world wars, American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War, and the growth of Jews' influence and affluence. The second half of the volume includes essays on Orthodox Jews, the history of Jewish education in America, the rise of Jewish soc