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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: 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: 9780198935087ISBN 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 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 ContentsIntroduction: 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 WomenReviewsAuthor InformationBirte 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 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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