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Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction: After the Crime is Over 1. Prison Films of Pre-Code Hollywood: Big Houses, Death Houses and Chain Gangs 2. Women's Prison Films of the 1950s and Early 1960s 3. Identity and Violence in Popular Prison Films from the 1960s to the 1990s Afterword: Post-9/11 Prison Movies and the Era of Mass Incarceration Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: Columbia University Press
      Publication Date: 14/02/2017
      ISBN13: 9780231181143, 978-0231181143
      ISBN10: 0231181140
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements Introduction: After the Crime is Over 1. Prison Films of Pre-Code Hollywood: Big Houses, Death Houses and Chain Gangs 2. Women's Prison Films of the 1950s and Early 1960s 3. Identity and Violence in Popular Prison Films from the 1960s to the 1990s Afterword: Post-9/11 Prison Movies and the Era of Mass Incarceration Bibliography Index

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