Imagining the American Death Penalty: The Cultural Work of Popular Visual Representations

Author:   Birte Christ (Giessen University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
ISBN:  

9780198935087


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   31 May 2025
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

Our Price $208.95 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Imagining the American Death Penalty: The Cultural Work of Popular Visual Representations


Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Birte Christ (Giessen University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780198935087


ISBN 10:   0198935080
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   31 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Imagining the American Death Penalty PART I. THE C AMER A AND THE CHAIR , 1890-1916 1: New Technologies of Representation and Death 2: Scenes of Execution PART II. BL ACK FILM, WHITE FACES 3: Before Furman 4: Hollywood's ""Mixed Verdict"" PART III. PUTTING DE ATH INTO DISCOURSE 5: New Abolitionism, New Genre 6: Multiple Audience Positions in Legal Series Conclusion: Entertaining Ambiguity, and Imagining New Black Men and Women

Reviews

Author Information

Birte Christ has been teaching American Literature, Culture, and Media at Giessen University since 2009. Her work has focused on gender studies, book studies, the modernist and post-modernist novel, contemporary American politics and its media, but most importantly on Law and Literature and on the American death penalty. She has published on related issues such as the death penalty in Germany, and she has co-edited a volume on literary representations of the death penalty (Death Sentences, 2019). Her research has been supported, among others, by the American Antiquarian Society, the Karl Loewenstein Fellowship at Amherst College, and the Humboldt Foundation.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

NOV RG 20252

 

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List