Chair of the Graduate Program in Culture and Film Studies at Haifa University's Faculty of the Humanities.

• IntroductionChapter 1Law, Fiction and DeathIntroduction: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood FilmSilent Film: The Death Penalty as a Social Problem and as Popular EntertainmentCensorship and Manipulation: The Difficult YearsThe Golden Age of Legal Cinema…And Justice for All: Legal Cinema since the 1960sChapter 2The Death Penalty in the United StatesHistorical Aspects of Culture, Society and LawProgress and Creativity in the Service of DeathA Living Penalty: How Much Longer?Chapter 3A Cinematic Window to Problems Concerning the Death PenaltyLegal Controversy as a Cinematic EventA Particularly Subjective Objectivity: The Jury ProblemStrange FruitThe Mentally Retarded and the Mentally Ill on Death RowOld Enough to DieForbidden RelationshipsTechnological and Procedural Innovation in the Service of DeathChapter 4Death Becomes Them: Women on the Gallows2.1.The Winning Formula: Women, Gallows, CameraOff with Their Heads: Politics, Monarchy, and ReligionFemale Spies and Patriotism in FilmFrom the Gallows Chamber to Iconic StatusBetween Drama and Musical Comedy: Life (and Death) as a Circus

Chair of the Graduate Program in Culture and Film Studies at Haifa University's Faculty of the Humanities.

• IntroductionChapter 1Law, Fiction and DeathIntroduction: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood FilmSilent Film: The Death Penalty as a Social Problem and as Popular EntertainmentCensorship and Manipulation: The Difficult YearsThe Golden Age of Legal Cinema…And Justice for All: Legal Cinema since the 1960sChapter 2The Death Penalty in the United StatesHistorical Aspects of Culture, Society and LawProgress and Creativity in the Service of DeathA Living Penalty: How Much Longer?Chapter 3A Cinematic Window to Problems Concerning the Death PenaltyLegal Controversy as a Cinematic EventA Particularly Subjective Objectivity: The Jury ProblemStrange FruitThe Mentally Retarded and the Mentally Ill on Death RowOld Enough to DieForbidden RelationshipsTechnological and Procedural Innovation in the Service of DeathChapter 4Death Becomes Them: Women on the Gallows2.1.The Winning Formula: Women, Gallows, CameraOff with Their Heads: Politics, Monarchy, and ReligionFemale Spies and Patriotism in FilmFrom the Gallows Chamber to Iconic StatusBetween Drama and Musical Comedy: Life (and Death) as a Circus

Chair of the Graduate Program in Culture and Film Studies at Haifa University's Faculty of the Humanities.

• IntroductionChapter 1Law, Fiction and DeathIntroduction: Criminality and Retribution in Hollywood FilmSilent Film: The Death Penalty as a Social Problem and as Popular EntertainmentCensorship and Manipulation: The Difficult YearsThe Golden Age of Legal Cinema…And Justice for All: Legal Cinema since the 1960sChapter 2The Death Penalty in the United StatesHistorical Aspects of Culture, Society and LawProgress and Creativity in the Service of DeathA Living Penalty: How Much Longer?Chapter 3A Cinematic Window to Problems Concerning the Death PenaltyLegal Controversy as a Cinematic EventA Particularly Subjective Objectivity: The Jury ProblemStrange FruitThe Mentally Retarded and the Mentally Ill on Death RowOld Enough to DieForbidden RelationshipsTechnological and Procedural Innovation in the Service of DeathChapter 4Death Becomes Them: Women on the Gallows2.1.The Winning Formula: Women, Gallows, CameraOff with Their Heads: Politics, Monarchy, and ReligionFemale Spies and Patriotism in FilmFrom the Gallows Chamber to Iconic StatusBetween Drama and Musical Comedy: Life (and Death) as a Circus