ISBN: 9780674667365 - pictures at an execution: an inquiry into the subject of murder (22 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. This book is about murderin life and in artand about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lessers investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This book is about murderin life and in artand about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lessers investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. This book is about murderin life and in artand about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lessers investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. This book is about murderin life and in artand about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lessers investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television.…

Paperback. Condición: Fine-. 270pp. Photos and illustrations Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Good, paperback. Generally clean, bright and tight. Some marks and age tanning but otherwise in good condition. Corners slightly dog-eared.

Softcover / Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Softcover. 2nd US printing. This book is about murder - in life and in art - and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the centre of the author's investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television. Our grim and seemingly endless fascination with murder gets its day in court as the author conducts us though the proceedings, pausing along the way to reflect on the circumstances of violent death in our culture. Her book is also a meditation on murder in a civilised society - what we make of it in law, morality, and art. Illus. + Notes. 270pp. trade size softcover. Signs of b/plate removal inside fr. cover, small crease across lower r/hand corner of fr. cover. Vg+.…

Broché. Condición: Bon état. In-8 Description :270 pp. Langue : Anglais Nb de volumes : 1.

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Paperback. Condición: Brand New. reprint edition. 284 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condición: New. pp. 288 Reprint edition.

Condición: New. pp. 288.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condición: New. This book is about murder-in life and in art-and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lesser s investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be br.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - At the center of this book is Lesser's investigation in a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television. This gripping work brings us face to face with our own most disturbing cultural impulses. Halftones.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This book is about murder-in life and in art-and about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Wendy Lesser's investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television. Our grim and seemingly endless fascination with murder gets its day in court as Lesser conducts us through the proceedings, pausing along the way to reflect on the circumstances of violent death in our culture. Her book, itself a murder mystery of sorts, circling suspensefully around a central point, is also a meditation on murder in a civilized society-what we make of it in law, morality, and art.Lesser narrates the trial with a sharp eye for detail and an absorbing sense of character. Questions that arise in the courtroom conjure other, broader ones: why are we drawn to murder, as an act and as a spectacle? Who in a murder story are we drawn to-victim, murderer, detective? Is such interest, even pleasure, morally suspect? Lesser's reflections on these questions follow the culture in its danse macabre, from Norman Mailer's Executioner's Song to the Jacobean play The Changeling, from Errol Morris's documentary The Thin Blue Line to Crime and Punishment, from Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer to Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me, from Weegee's photographs to television's movie of the week. Always anchored in the courtroom, where the question of murder as theater is being settled in immediate, human terms, this circle of thought widens outward to the increasingly blurred borderline between real and fictional murder, between event and story, between murder as news and as art. As gripping as its subject, Pictures at an Execution ultimately brings us face to face with our own most disturbing cultural impulses. This book is about murderin life and in artand about how we look at it and feel about it. At the center of Lessers investigation is a groundbreaking legal case in which a federal court judge was asked to decide whether a gas chamber execution would be broadcast on public television. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…