TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kozlovsky-Golan,Yvonne
TI  - The death penalty in American cinema: criminality and retribution in Hollywood film 
SN  - 9781780763330 (Cloth)
AV  - PN 1995.9 K88d 2014
U1  - 791.436556 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London, New York, NY, New York, NY
PB  - I.B. Tauris, Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Capital punishment in motion pictures
KW  - Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Películas cinematográficas
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Historia y crítica
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index; Law, fiction and death -- The death penalty in the United States -- A cinemati window to problems concerning the death penalty -- Death becomes them: women on the gallows
N2  - Killing as punishment in the USA, whether ordained by lynch mob or by the courts, reflects a paradox of the American nation: liberal, pluralistic, yet prone to lethal violence. This book examines the encounter between the legal history of the death penalty in America and its cinematic representations, through a comprehensive narrative and historical view of films dealing with this genre, from the silent era to the present. It addresses central issues including racial prejudice and attitudes towards the execution of women, and discusses how cinema has chosen to deal with them. It explores how such films as Michael Curtiz's 20,000 Years in Sing Sing and Fritz Lang's The Fury, Errol Morris's documentary The Thin Blue Line, John Singleton's Rosewood and Frank Darabont's death-row movie The Green Mile, have helped to shape real historical developments and public perceptions by bringing into sharper relief the legal, social and cultural tensions associated with capital punishment. In the process, Yvonne Kozlovksy-Golan provides the reader with a superb understanding of the complexities of the death penalty through US history
ER  -