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- Gangster Films
- Lawyers and the Legal Process in the Movies
- PrisonFlicks
- Alber, Jan.
- "Bodies Behind Bars: The Disciplining of the Prisoner's Body in British and American Prison Movies." In: In the grip of the law : trials, prisons, and the space between / edited by Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson. pp: 249-61. Frankfurt am main ; New York : P. Lang, c2004.
- Main Stack PR408.L38.I5 2004
- Bennett, Jamie
- "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: The Media in Prison Films." The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
Volume 45 Issue 2 Page 97 - May 2006
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- "Generally, people have low levels of exposure to prisons through personal experience and therefore the media plays an important role in informing beliefs and actions. In particular prison films are an important and extensive form of media depiction. However, media depiction of crime and imprisonment has been criticised on ethical, political and social grounds. This article explores how prison films have depicted the relationship between the media, crime and punishment. It argues that this is a significant and integrated part of the prison film genre. It also argues that these representations are important both as a narrative device and in making the media a focus of pressure for reform." [Blackwell Synergy]
- Bernstein, Matthew
- "Institutions and individuals: Riot in cell block 11." Velvet Light Trap nr 28 (Fall 1991); p 3-31
- Auteurist reappraisal of "Riot in cell block 11", arguing whether the atypical approach to the genre of prison films can be attributed to director Donald Siegel or producer Walter Wanger.[FIAF]
- Captured by the media : prison discourse in popular culture
- Edited by Paul Mason.
Cullompton, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan, c2006.
- Main Stack P96.C74.C37 2006
- Cheatwood, Derral.
- "Prison movies: films about adult, male, civilian prisons: 1929-1995." In: Popular culture, crime, and justice / Frankie Y. Bailey, Donna C. Hale. Belmont: Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1998. Contemporary issues in crime and justice series.
- Main Stack HV6789.B25 1998
- Ann Ciasullo.
- "Containing "Deviant" Desire: Lesbianism, Heterosexuality, and the Women-in-Prison Narrative." Journal of Popular Culture. Apr 2008. Vol. 41, Iss. 2; p. 195 (29 pages)
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- Clowers, M.
- "Dykes, gangs, and danger: Debunking popular myths about maximum-security life." Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, vol. 9, no. 1, pp.
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- "Although the number of incarcerated females is rapidly increasing, few of us will have actual contact with women in a correctional setting. For the most part, our ideas about female inmates and the prisons they are housed in come from filmic images--images that, though highly accessible to the public, depict inaccurate accounts of prison life. From the use of unlikely characters and their corresponding improbable behavior to the maintenance of insecure facilities and impossible happenings, the four films reviewed for this article propagate common, negative stereotypes of inmates. After providing numerous filmic images of inaccurate depictions, the author provides counterexamples based on her own work in a maximum-security prison as an educator of female inmates. More than being wrong, celluloid portrayals of female prisoners inspire additional marginalization of a group who, though convicted of serious crimes, will eventually be released into society." [Communication Abstracts]
- Combs, Richard
- "Less is more: Don Siegel from the block to the rock." Sight & Sound Vol XLIX nr 2 (Spring 1980); p 117-121
- A study of Siegel's career, and his two most notable prison films, 'Riot in cell block 11' and 'Escape from Alcatraz'.
- Crowther, Bruce.
- " Captured on film: the prison movie London: B.T. Batsford, 1989.
- UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.C36 C76 1989
- Cull, Nicholas J.
- "Great Escapes: 'Englishness' and the Prisoner of War Genre."
Film History: An International Journal, vol. 14, no. 3-4, pp. 282-95, 2002.
- Dow, David R.
- ""Fictional documentaries and truthful fictions: the death penalty in recent American film." Constitutional Commentary Winter 2000 v17 i3 p511 (18048 words)
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- Eigenberg, Helen; Baro, Agnes
- "If You Drop the Soap in the Shower You Are on Your Own: Images of Male Rape in Selected Prison Movies." Sexuality & Culture, 2003, 7, 4, fall, 56-89
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- "Analyzes 15 movies to explore whether films about prison life include male rape & whether this is an accurate reflection of the existing literature. Each film is analyzed to determine if male rape is presented as a common occurrence, is an essential part of the plot of the movie, & if the victims & perpetrators fit the stereotypical profiles of those believed to be victims & offenders in the prison culture. It was found that 50% of the films included an attempted or completed rape & nearly 75% mentioned rape & treated it as a common prison event. Consensual homosexual behavior & prostitution were not represented. Physical force was usually involved, & the victim displayed fear, but resisted physically. Prison officials were portrayed as passively accepting the practice of male rape. The results stand in contrast to studies that have found male rape in prison to be a relatively rare event. The sensationalization of male rape in prison may contribute to its acceptance as a deterrent of crime & may discourage the moral outrage that such vulnerability should receive." [Sociological Abstracts]
- Gonthier, David.
- American prison film since 1930 : from The big house to The Shawshank redemption
Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.
- MAIN: PN1995.9.P68 G66 2006
- Herman, D.
- "Bad Girls Changed My Life": Homonormativity in a Women's Prison Drama."
Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 20, No. 2, June 2003, pp. 141-159
- UCB users only
- In the grip of the law : trials, prisons, and the space between
- Edited by Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson.
Frankfurt am main ; New York : P. Lang, c2004.
- Main Stack PR408.L38.I5 2004
- Jarvis, Brian.
- "Inside the American prison film." In: Cruel and unusual : punishment and US culture
London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004.
- MAIN: HV9466 .J37 2004;
- Mason, Paul.
- "The Prison In Cinema." Senses of Cinema
- Mason, Paul.
- "Cinematic Penal Discourse and Populism 1995-2005." Social Semiotics Volume 16, Number 4/December 2006
- UCB users only
- "The increased populist and punitive turn in criminal justice policy in the United Kingdom over recent years has led to punishment becoming politicised, harsher and more ostentatious. The role of media and popular culture discourses of prison is rarely examined in this account. Adopting a Foucauldian discourse analysis of prison films released over the past 10 years, this article explores the prison film as one important element of the discursive regime. It seeks to investigate what representational practices are at work, how they limit the meaning of prison and prisoners, and how this may contribute to debates about the nature and aim of prison in contemporary society. It argues that several discursive practices exist in cinematic representations of the incarceration that strengthen support for the use of prison. The explicit and recurring depiction of violence in most prison films over the past 10 years, while appearing to offer evidence for prison reform, does the opposite. This paper suggests that discourses around the futility and inhumanity of incarceration are scant, replaced by scenes of prison violence; rape and death appear, which appear to exist purely for the pleasure of the spectator: a generic feature of the prison film. Secondly, prisoners are largely constructed as an inhuman other: a danger to society and deserving of harsh punishment. Consequently, the discursive regime of prison in cinema over the past decade constructs prison as not only necessary, but as the only process for crime control and reduction." [Taylor and Francis]
- Mayne, Judith.
- ""Caged and framed: the women-in-prison film." In: Framed: lesbians, feminists, and media culture / Judith Mayne. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
- Main Stack PN1995.9.W6.M359 2000
- Morey, Anne.
- ""'The Judge Called Me an Accessory': Women's Prison Films, 1950-1962." Journal of Popular Film & Television. 23(2):80-87. 1995 Summer.
- UCB users only
- Theoretical analysis of four women's prison films: "Caged", "Women's prison", "Girls in prison" and "House of women
- O'Sullivan, Sean
- "Representations of Prison in Nineties Hollywood Cinema: From Con Air to The Shawshank Redemption." Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 2001, 40, 4, Nov, 317-334
- UCB users only
- "The 1990s saw a steady growth in the world prison population with the US contributing significantly to the upward trend. But, while it has been suggested that media-led panics & the propagation of "prison myths" have legitimated prison growth, there has been little work done on the significance of representations of prison in popular cinema for social & cultural understandings of imprisonment. The current article attempts to redress this neglect. After a brief review of some of the existing literature, an analysis of four significant "prison films" of the 1990s is presented. It is concluded that, with respect to film, the notion of challenging media misrepresentations of prisons & prisoners is problematic. 24 References." [Sociological Abstracts]
- Parish, James Robert.
- " Prison pictures from Hollywood: plots, critiques, casts, and credits for 293 theatrical and made-for-television releases / by James Robert Parish. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, c1991.
- UCB Main PN1995.9.P68 P37 1991
- UCB Moffitt PN1995.9.P68 P37 1991)
- Querry, R.B.
- " "Prison movies: an annotated filmography 1921-present." Journal of Popular Film and Television; Vol.II nr.2 (Spring 1973); p.181-197
- Rafter, Nicole Hahn
- Shots in the mirror: crime films and society
Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- MAIN: PN1995.9.G3 R34 2000
- Moffitt: PN1995.9.G3 R34 2000
- Contents via Google Books
- Schauer, Terrie
- "Masculinity Incarcerated: Insurrectionary Speech and
Masculinities in Prison Fiction." Journal for Crime, Conflict and the Media 1 (3) 28-42
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- "Existing research on prison film—where it addresses gender—has largely focused
on the relationship between represented incarceration and hegemonic masculinities
(Jarvis, 2004; Mason, 2003; O'Sullivan, 2001). Although arguments are far more
complex, the general consensus appears to be that prison film as a whole
symbolically confirms, rather than challenges the existing hierarchical organization
of masculinities.
This article questions the preceding proposition. The debate begins at a theoretical
level, with a brief overview of some elements of masculinity studies theory that are
relevant to analysis of prison film. Next, I introduce Butler’s concept of
'insurrectionary speech'. Through textual analysis, 'insurrectionary speech'
(Butler, 1997) becomes a vehicle for reading certain fictional representations of
prison as renegotiations of conventional hegemonic masculinity is present-day
North America. In light of a number of recent productions, the article considers
the insurrectionary potential of prison film as a genre."
- Schuster, Heather
- "Prison/Labor/Film: A Montage." Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 2002, 24, 1, 103-131
- "Most contemporary American prison films represent the relationship between the inside & the outside of the prison through the prison escape. Paradoxically, the prison break both produces & undermines the distinction between inside & outside, which doesn't allow us to know very much about the prison itself. The audience is able to walk out of the theater without much thought regarding how prison structures our everyday lives. But the prison montage that opens Sam Peckinpah's 1972 film The Getaway expresses how the prison functions as a microcosm of social totality at the same time it is the locus of the most radical exclusion from the social. In this way, prison actually fragments or destroys the fascistic fantasy of tantalization, which is based on an omnipotent vision of the whole. And cinematic montage becomes a mighty means through which to express this new understanding of totality." [Sociological Abstracts]
- Sutton, David L.; Winn, J. Emmett
- "'Do We Get to Win This Time?': POW/MIA Rescue Films and the American Monomyth." Journal of American & Comparative Cultures, vol. 24, no. 1-2, pp. 25-30, Spring 2001. [Journal Information]
- Walters, Suzanna Danuta.
- "Caged Heat: The (R)Evolution of Women-in-Prison."
In: Reel knockouts: violent women in the movies / edited by Martha McCaughey and Neal King. 1st ed. pp: 106-23. ustin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
- Main Stack PN1995.9.W6.R454 2001
- Williams, Melanie.
- "Women in Prison and Women in Dressing Gowns: Rediscovering the 1950s Films of J. Lee Thompson." Journal of Gender Studies. 11(1):5-15. 2002 Mar
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- "British cinema of the 1950s has recently been the subject of substantial reappraisal which has sought to rescue it from its former image as dull and reactionary. However, one thing that has stayed the same is the notion of this period of British cinema as male-dominated, particularly through the critical focus on the war film genre. An analysis of director J. Lee Thompson's career in the 1950s provides an interesting corrective to this. Thompson's films focus predominantly on women, particularly those who do not or cannot fit in with accepted modes of female behaviour. These include two films about women in prison, The Weak and The Wicked (1953) and Yield To The Night (1956), and one about an unhappy housewife, Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957). This article also discusses Thompson's contribution to the war film, Ice Cold In Alex (1958), which interestingly, is one of the few examples of the genre to give a central role to a female character. Although the personnel behind these films are mainly men, including Thompson himself, these films powerfully expose the contradictions and problems in constructions of femininity at the time, and merit more critical attention than they have previously received." [Taylor & Francis]
- Wilson, David.
- Images of incarceration : representations of prison in film and television drama
Winchester, U.K. : Waterside Press, 2004.
- MAIN: PN1995.9.P68 W559 2004
- Contents via Google books
- Wilson, David.
- "Inside observations." Screen; Vol.XXXIV nr.1 (Spring 1993); p.76-79
- Discusses the use of clichéd or 'mythical' images of prisons in US films.
"Notes that British cinema of the 1950s has been the subject of substantial reappraisal which has sought to rescue it from its former image as dull and reactionary. However, one thing that has stayed the same is the notion of this period of British cinema as male-dominated, particularly through the critical focus on the war film genre. An analysis of director J. L. Thompson's career in the 1950s provides an interesting corrective to this. Thompson's films focus predominantly on women, particularly those who do not or cannot fit in with accepted modes of female behavior. These include 2 films about women in prison, The Weak and The Wicked (1953) and Yield To The Night (1956), and 1 about an unhappy housewife, Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957). This article also discusses Thompson's contribution to the war film, Ice Cold In Alex (1958), which is 1 of the few examples of the genre to give a central role to a female character. Although the personnel behind these films are mainly men, including Thompson himself, these films expose the contradictions and problems in constructions of femininity at the time, and merit more critical attention than they have previously received." [PsycINFO]
- Young, Charles S.
- "Missing Action: POW Films, Brainwashing, and the Korean War, 1954-1968."
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 49-74, March 1998.
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