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Penality In American Cinema

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1. In this chapter, Brown discusses the cultural representation of punishment and prison in the media (particularly in American cinema) and how it shapes the way that penal spectators view crime through and punishment and its complex relationship with penality as both influence and are influenced by each other. In classical cinema, representations of punishment relied on the desires of the audiences and familiar penal elements, which were reflective of current cultural events, to gain notoriety. These elements allowed for audiences to identify with the lives of the characters and reproduces the idea that these inmates were capable of rehabilitation. However, contemporary films apply the concepts of penality into everyday situations, which in
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