Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars

by Kevin Kehrwald Editor and Kevin Kehrwald

Prison Movies: Cinema Behind Bars traces the public fascination with incarceration from the silent era to the present. Often considered an offshoot of the gangster film, the prison film precedes the gangster film and is in many ways its opposite. Rather than focusing on tragic figures heading for a fall, the prison film focuses on fallen characters seeking redemption. The gangster's perverse pursuit of the American dream is irrelevant to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231181159
• ISBN13: 9780231181150
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 7.9"