In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America - Couverture rigide

Christian, Diane

 
9780807835395: In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0807835390 ISBN 13 : 9780807835395
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012

Synopsis

In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences of Death Row inmates in the official nonperiod between sentencing and execution.

In the first section, Pictures, ninety-two photographs taken during their fieldwork for the book and documentary film Death Row illustrate life on cell block J in Ellis Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections. The second section, Words, further reveals the world of Death Row prisoners and offers an unflinching commentary on the judicial system and the fates of the men they met on the Row. The third section, Working, addresses profound moral and ethical issues the authors have encountered throughout their careers documenting the Row.

Included is a DVD of Jackson and Christian's 1979 documentary film, Death Row.

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À propos de l?auteur

Bruce Jackson is James Agee Professor of American Culture and SUNY Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is author of numerous books and films, including the book Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture.
Diane Christian, a poet, scholar of religious literature, and recognized documentarian, is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Jackson and Christian cowrote Death Row in addition to producing and directing the film of the same name.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807835390
ISBN 13 
9780807835395
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
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Personne responsable
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