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Poison
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Rosetta
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Poison
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Discipline and Punish
Carries a strong pull into books through Michel Foucault and South Asia.
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3:10 to Yuma
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Rectify
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and South Asia.
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Oz
1990s
Life inside a maximum-security prison. The show that proved HBO could do prestige drama.
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The Poison Belt
1910s
The Poison Belt is a 1913 book by Arthur Conan Doyle, linked to United Kingdom and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
2010s
Yotarou is a former yakuza member fresh out of prison and fixated on just one thing: rather than return to a life of crime, the young man aspires to take to the stage of rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of comedic storytelling. Inspired during his incarceration by the performance of distinguished practitioner Yak...
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A Prophet
2000s
A young Arab man rises through the French prison system. Crime cinema as sociological study.
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Essays 1970s
Discipline and Punish
From public execution to the panopticon. Power, surveillance, and the birth of the prison.
Television 2010s
Homeland
Homeland is an American espionage thriller television series developed by Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa. It is based on the Israeli series Prisoners of War, created by Gideon Raff, who also serves as an executive producer on Homeland. The series stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a CIA officer with bipolar disord...
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Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison
book published in 1977
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Music 2010s
Rosetta
Film 2000s
3:10 to Yuma
A struggling rancher escorts a captured outlaw to the prison train. Mangold's taut Western remake built on the tension between two men.
Television 2010s
Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan for Netflix. It is based on Piper Kerman's memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (2010), about her experiences at FCI Danbury, a minimum security federal prison. Produced by Tilted Productions in associ...