Pictures at an Execution

by Wendy Lesser

Book Overview

This book is about murder--in life and in art--and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Wendy Lesser's investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television. Our grim and seemingly endless fascination with murder gets its day in court as Lesser conducts us through the proceedings, pausing along the way to reflect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674667360
• ISBN13: 9780674667365
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"