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Pictures at an Execution : An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder
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Bester Preis: € 1,87 (vom 10.02.2017)Pictures at an Execution. An Inquiry Into the Subject of Murder (1995)
ISBN: 9780674667358 bzw. 0674667352, vermutlich in Englisch, Harvard University Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, guter Zustand, Erstausgabe.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Lawrence Jones.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1995. 270pp, notes, few bw ills. Or gray papered boards, black cloth spine, in jacket. Minor edge wear to jacket, few page corners turned, rubbed along front edge of spine, chip at top of spine. Central to the author'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 TV. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.
Pictures at an Execution
ISBN: 9780674667365 bzw. 0674667360, in Englisch, Harvard University Press, United States of America, neu.
This book is about murder - in life and in art - and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the centre of Wendy Lesser's investigation is a legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television. Lesser conducts us through the proceedings, pausing along the way to reflect on the circumstances of violent death in our culture. Her book is also a meditation on murder in a civilized society - what we make of it in law, morality and art.
Pictures at an Execution
ISBN: 9780674667365 bzw. 0674667360, in Englisch, Harvard, neu.
Wendy Lesser, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, Pictures at an Execution, 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 fascination with murder gets its day in court as Lesser conducts us through the proceedings, pausing along the way to reflect on the circumstances of violent death in our culture.
Pictures at an Execution : An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder
ISBN: 0674667352 bzw. 9780674667358, in Englisch, Harvard University Press, gebraucht.
communication and journalism,communication and media studies,criticism and theory,history and criticism,literature and fiction,media studies,politics and social sciences,social sciences,sociology,textbooks, This book is about murder - in life and in art - and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the centre 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 on the circumstances of violent death in our culture. Her book, itself a murder mystery of sorts, circling suspensefully around a central point, is also a meditation on murder in a civilized society - what we make of it in law, morality, and art. Lesser narrates the trial with a sharp eye for detail and an absorbing sense of character. Questions that arise in the courtroom conjure other, broader ones: why are we drawn to murder, as an act and as a spectacle? Who in a murder story are we drawn to - victim, murderer, detective? Is such interest, even pleasure, morally suspect? Lesser's reflections on these questions follow the culture in its "danse macabre", from Norman Mailer's "Executioner"s Song" to the Jacobean play "The Changeling" from Errol Morris's documentary "The Thin Blue Line to Crime and Punishment", from Janet Malcolm's "The Journalist and the Murderer" to Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me", from Weegee's photographs to television's movie of the week. Always anchored in the courtroom, where the question of murder as.
Pictures at an Execution : An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder
ISBN: 0674667360 bzw. 9780674667365, in Englisch, Harvard University Press, gebraucht.
communication and journalism,communication and media studies,criticism and theory,fiction,history and criticism,literature and fiction,media studies,politics and social sciences,social sciences,sociology, Pictures at an Execution, 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 fascination with murder gets its day in court as Lesser conducts us through the proceedings, pausing along the way to reflect on the circumstances of violent death in our culture.
Pictures at an Execution
ISBN: 9780674667365 bzw. 0674667360, in Englisch, Triliteral, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
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Pictures at an execution - An inquiry into the subjet of murder (1995)
ISBN: 9780674667365 bzw. 0674667360, in Englisch, Harvard University Press, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, gebraucht.
Harvard University Press Cambridge / London 1995 Broché In-8.