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America is the prison : arts and politics in prison in the 1970s / / Lee Bernstein



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Autore: Bernstein Lee <1967-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: America is the prison : arts and politics in prison in the 1970s / / Lee Bernstein Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 224 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 709.73/09047
Soggetto topico: Prisoners as artists - United States
Arts, American - 20th century
Arts - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century
Arts and society - United States - History - 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-214) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 extraordinary
Titolo autorizzato: America is the prison  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0404-3
0-8078-9832-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814178003321
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