Add to ORKGThis essay will examine how two filmmakers used the cinema to investigate death penalty issues through the films Dead Man Walking and Last Light. These films were selected because of their similarities: capital punishment is the central theme of both films; the presence of a strong principal character who is the condemned inmate; the utilization of a character who undergoes a spiritual transformation due to interaction with the condemned inmate; the decision to have this character facilitate the humanization of the condemned individual; and the additional role this character plays as the audiences\u27 conscience. There are, however, differences in the manner the two films address capital punishment that will also be discussed. The ultimate ...
The pros and cons of capital punishment echo through American history into our own time. A look at a...
Since the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the legality of the death penalty in 1976, capital ...
Suggests that criminals who commit specific violent crimes should be given the death penalt
This essay will examine how two filmmakers used the cinema to investigate death penalty issues throu...
Contemporary Hollywood films seem at first glance to be opposed to capital punishment. However, this...
In the long history of capital punishment in the U.S., writers and artists have played an active rol...
The United States is one of the last western nations still practicing capital punishment. A history ...
This thesis examines the work of filmmakers in Britain who confronted the issue of capital punishmen...
This project will examine the evolution of the death penalty throughout history and discuss the lega...
Since the nineteenth century, executions have been transformed from public events to ‘behind-the-sce...
The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the use of execution through hanging, beheading, drowni...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This dissertation examines theatrical representations ...
Laurie JohnsonAmerican comedian Dan Miller once said that “the death penalty is becoming a way of li...
Film reflects the values and struggles of a generation, but films can also spread awareness about so...
Most members of the public lack first-hand experience with the criminal justice system; nevertheless...
The pros and cons of capital punishment echo through American history into our own time. A look at a...
Since the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the legality of the death penalty in 1976, capital ...
Suggests that criminals who commit specific violent crimes should be given the death penalt
This essay will examine how two filmmakers used the cinema to investigate death penalty issues throu...
Contemporary Hollywood films seem at first glance to be opposed to capital punishment. However, this...
In the long history of capital punishment in the U.S., writers and artists have played an active rol...
The United States is one of the last western nations still practicing capital punishment. A history ...
This thesis examines the work of filmmakers in Britain who confronted the issue of capital punishmen...
This project will examine the evolution of the death penalty throughout history and discuss the lega...
Since the nineteenth century, executions have been transformed from public events to ‘behind-the-sce...
The death penalty, or capital punishment, is the use of execution through hanging, beheading, drowni...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This dissertation examines theatrical representations ...
Laurie JohnsonAmerican comedian Dan Miller once said that “the death penalty is becoming a way of li...
Film reflects the values and struggles of a generation, but films can also spread awareness about so...
Most members of the public lack first-hand experience with the criminal justice system; nevertheless...
The pros and cons of capital punishment echo through American history into our own time. A look at a...
Since the United States Supreme Court reaffirmed the legality of the death penalty in 1976, capital ...
Suggests that criminals who commit specific violent crimes should be given the death penalt