Austin Sarat

(Author)

Punishment in Popular CultureHardcover, 5 June 2015

Punishment in Popular Culture
Qty
1
Turbo
Ships in 2 - 3 days
In Stock
Free Delivery
Cash on Delivery
15 Days
Free Returns
Secure Checkout
Buy More, Save More
Part of Series
The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Race and Justice
Part of Series
Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race and Justic
Print Length
320 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
5 Jun 2015
ISBN-10
1479861952
ISBN-13
9781479861958

Description

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, a spectacle of condemnation. It recognizes that the semiotics of punishment is all around us, not just in the architecture of the prison, or the speech made by a judge as she sends someone to the penal colony, but 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? What are the conventions of genre which help to familiarize those portraits and connect them to broader political and cultural themes? Do television and film help to undermine punishment's moral claims? And how are developments in the boarder political economy reflected in the ways punishment appears in mass culture? Finally, how are images of punishment received by their audiences? It is to these questions that Punishment in Popular Culture is addressed.

Product Details

Author:
Austin Sarat
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
5 June 2015
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 2.24 cm
ISBN-10:
1479861952
ISBN-13:
9781479861958
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
320
Weight:
603.28 gm

Related Categories


Need Help?
+971 6 731 0280
support@gzb.ae

About UsContact UsPayment MethodsFAQsShipping PolicyRefund and ReturnTerms of UsePrivacy PolicyCookie Notice

VisaMastercardCash on Delivery

© 2024 White Lion General Trading LLC. All rights reserved.