Pictures at an Execution : An Inquiry into the Subject of Murder - Hardcover
An investigation of society's attitude toward murder, both in art and in real life, recounts a famous legal case in which a federal court judge had to decide whether a gas-chamber execution would be broadcast on public television.
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Wendy Lesser is editor of The Threepenny Review.
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Lesser's mesmerizing study about the spectatorship of murder...demonstrates why a televised execution cannot succeed as either deterrent or moral instruction. A significant addition to the literature of capital punishment. (Robert Taylor Boston Globe)
Erudite but sensible culture crit. (New Statesman & Society)
Unusually compelling reading, for the book suggests that the persistent interest in murder is in fact one of the threads of our common humanity, a prospect we can hardly entertain with complacency. Why murder should draw us is the question Lesser explores through a multiplicity of lenses in a sensitive and intelligent manner, abjuring sensationalism. This is a provocative, well-conceived, and well-written book. (James P. Hammersmith Southern Humanities Review)
Her style is not dense but enviable, a joy to read, like listening to an old friend. (Douglas Dennis Angolite)
What's most engaging about Pictures at an Execution is the way in which Lesser's intense involvement with her subject is mediated by a cool rationality that militates against sentimentality, cant, and disingenuousness. It's bracing to watch an active moral intelligence at work, ready to question anything, including the writer's own motives...We can read the book with pleasure, interest, and admiration. (Francine Prose New York Newsday)
Erudite but sensible culture crit. (New Statesman & Society)
Unusually compelling reading, for the book suggests that the persistent interest in murder is in fact one of the threads of our common humanity, a prospect we can hardly entertain with complacency. Why murder should draw us is the question Lesser explores through a multiplicity of lenses in a sensitive and intelligent manner, abjuring sensationalism. This is a provocative, well-conceived, and well-written book. (James P. Hammersmith Southern Humanities Review)
Her style is not dense but enviable, a joy to read, like listening to an old friend. (Douglas Dennis Angolite)
What's most engaging about Pictures at an Execution is the way in which Lesser's intense involvement with her subject is mediated by a cool rationality that militates against sentimentality, cant, and disingenuousness. It's bracing to watch an active moral intelligence at work, ready to question anything, including the writer's own motives...We can read the book with pleasure, interest, and admiration. (Francine Prose New York Newsday)
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0674667352
- ISBN 13 9780674667358
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages270
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