Description: Carceral Fantasies : Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America, Hardcover by Griffiths, Alison, ISBN 0231161069, ISBN-13 9780231161060, Brand New, Free shipping in the US A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the . penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema. Focusing on films shown in prisons before 1935, Alison Griffiths explores the unique experience of viewing cinema while incarcerated and the complex cultural roots of cinematic renderings of prison life.
Griffiths considers a diverse mix of cinematic genres, from early actualities and reenactments of notorious executions to reformist exposs of the 1920s. She connects an early fascination with cinematic images of punishment and execution, especially electrocutions, to the attractions of the nineteenth-century carnival electrical wonder show and Phantasmagoria (a ghost show using magic lantern projections and special effects). Griffiths draws upon convict writing, prison annual reports, and the popular press obsession with prison-house cinema to document the integration of film into existing reformist and educational activities and films psychic extension of flights of fancy undertaken by inmates in their cells. Combining penal history with visual and film studies and theories surrounding medias sensual effects, Carceral Fantasies illuminates how filmic representations of the penal system enacted ideas about modernity, gender, the body, and the public, shaping both the social experience of cinema and the publics understanding of the modern prison.
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Book Title: Carceral Fantasies : Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century
Number of Pages: 472 Pages
Publication Name: Carceral Fantasies : Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Film / General, Penology, Film / History & Criticism, Film & Video, Criminology
Item Height: 1.3 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 46.1 Oz
Author: Alison Griffiths
Subject Area: Art, Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Length: 10.2 in
Item Width: 7.4 in
Series: Film and Culture Ser.
Format: Hardcover
