03054nam 22006494a 450 991045976850332120200520144314.01-4696-0404-30-8078-9832-5(CKB)2670000000037562(EBL)565688(OCoLC)658201602(SSID)ssj0000411632(PQKBManifestationID)11309735(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000411632(PQKBWorkID)10357179(PQKB)10045535(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245667(MiAaPQ)EBC565688(MdBmJHUP)muse23339(Au-PeEL)EBL565688(CaPaEBR)ebr10405059(CaONFJC)MIL929538(EXLCZ)99267000000003756220091125d2010 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAmerica is the prison[electronic resource] arts and politics in prison in the 1970s /Lee BernsteinChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20101 online resource (239 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-7117-6 0-8078-3387-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-214) and index.We shall have order: the cultural politics of law and order -- The age of Jackson: George Jackson and the radical critique of incarceration -- What works? reform and repression in prison programs -- We took the weight: incarcerated writers and artists in the Black Arts movement -- Cell block theater: entertainment, liberation, and the politics of prison theater -- Radical chic: Jack Henry Abbott and the decline of prison programming.In the 1970's, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings. Lee Bernstein explores the forces that sparked a dramatic ""prison art renaissance,"" shedding light on how incarcerated people produced powerful works of writing, performance, and visual art. These included everything from George Jackson's revolutionary Soledad Brother to Miguel Pinero's acclaimed off-Broadway play and Hollywood film Short Eyes. An extraordinaryPrisoners as artistsUnited StatesArts, American20th centuryArtsPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryArts and societyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryElectronic books.Prisoners as artistsArts, AmericanArtsPolitical aspectsHistoryArts and societyHistory709.73/09047Bernstein Lee1967-1030114MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459768503321America is the prison2446889UNINA