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Prison Bars and Chains: Seeing Incarceration in Medieval Art Prison Bars and Chains: Seeing Incarceration in Medieval Art
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Light and the Carceral Aesthetic Light and the Carceral Aesthetic
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Clothes That Hurt: Prison Stripes and Other Uniforms Clothes That Hurt: Prison Stripes and Other Uniforms
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Prisoner-of-War Films Prisoner-of-War Films
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The Penal Body in Motion The Penal Body in Motion
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Prison in Early Narrative Films Prison in Early Narrative Films
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The Good Prisoner: Melodrama and Redemption The Good Prisoner: Melodrama and Redemption
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“Lulled into Lassitude”: Final Thoughts on the Prison FilmClose “Lulled into Lassitude”: Final Thoughts on the Prison FilmClose
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Two Prison on Screen: The Carceral Aesthetic
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Published:August 2016
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Abstract
Chapter 2: “Prison on Screen: The Carceral Aesthetic” examines how actuality, reconstruction, and fictional films representing prisons and prisoners made before cinema’s transitional era in the mid teens construct a carceral imaginary that was indebted to precinematic visions of imprisonment at the same time they established new conventions around visualizing incarceration. Beyond identifying the visual tropes used in prison dramas to signify the imprisonment, this chapter examines conventional and subversive narrative spaces carved out for prison trick films and dramas and asks whether films made prior to the transitional era open up alternative ways of theorizing carcerality.
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