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Evolving standards of decency : popular culture and capital punishment

Title
  1. Evolving standards of decency : popular culture and capital punishment / Mary Welek Atwell.
Published by
  1. New York : P. Lang, [2004], ©2004.
Author
  1. Atwell, Mary Welek, 1943-

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Description
  1. 178 pages; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "Evolving Standards of Decency examines the ways in which popular culture portrays the death penalty. By analyzing literature and film, Atwell argues that capital punishment becomes much more complex when both offenders and victims are presented as fully developed individuals." "Those studying justice issues, corrections, or capital punishment will find this an accessible work that places the stories read in novels or seen in movies in the context of the legal system that has the power of life and death."--BOOK JACKET.
Series statement
  1. Politics, media & popular culture ; v. 10
Uniform title
  1. Politics, media & popular culture ; v. 10.
Subject
  1. USA > Todesstrafe > Öffentliche Meinung > Massenmedien
  2. Massenmedien > Öffentliche Meinung > Todesstrafe > USA
  3. Capital punishment in popular culture > United States
  4. Todesstrafe > Öffentliche Meinung > Massenmedien > USA
  5. Öffentliche Meinung > Massenmedien > Todesstrafe > USA
  6. Mass media and public opinion > United States
  7. Capital punishment > United States > Public opinion
  8. Public opinion > United States
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. The public and capital punishment : past and present -- Ch. 2. "A random assortment of pariahs" : the Supreme Court considers the death penalty -- Ch. 3. Real people and "true-life novels" -- Ch. 4. Novels transformed into films -- Ch. 5. Killing to show that killing is wrong : the death penalty in the movies -- Ch. 6. If words could kill : crime fiction and the death penalty -- Ch. 7. The power of stories.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-178).