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Apr 15, 2022 · Featuring deeply unsettling subject matter and graphic violence, Edward Norton and Edward Furlong star as two brothers heavily involved in the local white power skinhead and neo-Nazi movements.
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Jul 20, 2020 · The prison-row drama Clemency tackles the debate around mass incarceration and capital punishment head on. Almaz Ohene talks to its director Chinonye Chukwu about why her remarkable film deserves a closer look.
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Sometimes a mere setting for the narrative, other times a character in the tale, prison is pervasive in film. And a curious mechanism it is. Why, in a medium offering escapism, would confinement...
Nov 9, 2015 · I’m currently working with ex-offenders to explore how they understand US prison texts, whether Hollywood films about chain gangs, poems from Guantanamo Bay or memoirs from death row.
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Nov 10, 2015 · In spite of their different approaches to the subject matter, both films are excellent accounts of these two related experiments, which bring out the questions arising from each study and urge us to take them into consideration.
Must the prison itself actually feature, how do we define a prisoner, and what features are immediately recognisable in the prison film? In moving towards a definition Kehrwald sets up the parameters of his study and justifies his exclusion of kidnapping films, prisoner of war films and the mental institution film.
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Dec 31, 2019 · An overview of traditional narratives on prison is offered to highlight the main characteristics of the ambiguous and challenging genre of the prison film, while a closer look at one of its...
