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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 360 kr
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Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the US American cultural imaginary of capital punishment through popular visual representations from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on three generic and historical clusters of representations: early film from the 1890s through Intolerance (1916), crime film noir of the 1950s and1960s, and legal TV series from the 1990s through the early 2000s. The book makes two central arguments. First, it demonstrates that an increased concern with the death penalty in popular media does not mean that these texts promote an abolitionist agenda: their cultural work is ambiguous at best. This ambiguity is always contingent upon both the affordances of the particular genre and medium in question and on political-legal discursive context. The book explores both in detail. Early film is enchanted with its own representational possibilities due to the progress of technology and, in analogy, with the progress in execution technique, specifically the electric chair. In film noir, genre conventions and the legal back-and-forth before and after Furman predicate ambiguity. In legal TV series, the genre's ensemble casts and its focus on conversational exchange invite open debate. The second argument is that popular visual representations consistently whitewash the death penalty. The book demonstrates that this is the case because the most common narrative around executions in film and TV is to cast the condemned man as a hero who defies the violence of the state, gains dignity by accepting his fate and faults, and in some ways triumphs over death. The American imaginary, until very recently, did or could not imagine Black men to possess that measure of agency that it attributed to its white heroes.
Del 49 - Studies in Comparative Literature
Death Sentences
Literature and State Killing
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
1 434 kr
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Del 49 - Studies in Comparative Literature
Death Sentences
Literature and State Killing
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
210 kr
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Zehn Jahre nach dem 11. September 2001 ist es Zeit, Bilanz zu ziehen: Stellt der 11. September tatsächlich eine historische Wende dar? Die zehn Kapitel zu den Themen Weltmacht, Recht, Umwelt, Wirtschaft, Religion, Patriotismus, Verschwörung, Männer, Kunst und Anti-Amerikanismus zeichnen ein umfassendes Bild der politischen, gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Entwicklungen in den USA seit dem 11. September 2001. Sie zeigen, dass sich an diesem Tag die Welt nicht grundlegend ge ändert hat, wie oft behauptet wird, sondern dass 9/11 lediglich länger andauernde Entwicklungen verstärkt und sichtbar gemacht hat. Jedes Kapitel entwickelt diese These anhand einer zur Ikone gewordenen Fotografie - und unterstreicht so die visuelle Präsenz von 9/11 als zentrales Medienereignis des vergangenen Jahrzehnts.