“Just being here is the punishment”. Power, Control and the Female Body in "Caged" (1950)

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Title

“Just being here is the punishment”. Power, Control and the Female Body in "Caged" (1950)

College

Humboldt-University of Berlin  (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik)

Course

SE - Teaching American Popular Culture

Grade

1,3

Author

B.A. Thomas Schulze (Author)

Year

2015

Pages

31

Catalog Number

V320146

ISBN (eBook)

9783668193444

ISBN (Book)

9783668193451

File size

1409 KB

Language

German

Keywords

Caged, 1950, power, control, gaze, delinquency, delinquent, Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, The Birth of the Prison, female body, excess, dressage, discipline, rehabilitation, prison, Panopticon, women-in-prison, women in prison movies, exploitation movies, women's prison, melodramas, Marie Allen, Eleanor Parker, Evelyn Harper, Hope Emerson, Ruth Benton, Agnes Moorehead, femininity, WIP, homosexuality, prison lesbian, Elvira Powell, Kitty Stark, social body, corporality, punishment, criminality, otherness, fallen women, disciplinary apparatus, Jeremy Bentham, normalization, disciplinary techniques, surveillance, John Cromwell, docile bodies, detention, age of sobriety, female criminalization, penal system, penal labor, Camp