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Author: Alison Griffiths
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.318kg
ISBN: 9780231161060
ISBN 10: 0231161069
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 23 August 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Language: English
Reviews
This is a complex and highly original book which attends the intersections between various early cinema images of prisons and the real thing. Griffiths has a fascinating story to tell, in which she argues that we can view execution films as a kind of attraction - and in doing so, we are led to ponder: what constitutes an attraction? -- Jon Lewis, Oregon State University Alison Griffiths' examination of how movie exhibition came into prisons is truly ground-breaking. No one has studied the culture of movie-going behind bars in this fashion before. A unique and absolutely exciting work! -- Dana Polan, New York University
Alison Griffiths' examination of how movie exhibition came into prisons is truly ground-breaking. No one has studied the culture of movie-going behind bars in this fashion before. A unique and absolutely exciting work! -- Dana Polan, New York University This is a complex and highly original book which attends the intersections between various early cinema images of prisons and the real thing. Griffiths has a fascinating story to tell, in which she argues that we can view execution films as a kind of attraction - and in doing so, we are led to ponder: what constitutes an attraction? -- Jon Lewis, Oregon State University
This is a complex and highly original book which attends the intersections between various early cinema images of prisons and the real thing. Griffiths has a fascinating story to tell, in which she argues that we can view execution films as a kind of attraction - and in doing so, we are led to ponder: what constitutes an attraction? -- Jon Lewis, Oregon State University Griffiths's study is stunningly ground-breaking in her examination of how movie exhibition came into prisons. No one has studied the culture of movie-going at prisons in this fashion and her work is unique and absolutely exciting. -- Dana Polan, New York University
Author Information
Alison Griffiths is professor of film and media studies at Baruch College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. Her Columbia University Press books are Shivers Down Your Spine: Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View (2008) and Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture (2002).
