In This Timeless Time Living and Dying on Death Row in America (Includes a DVD of the documentary film Death Row) (Documentary Arts and Culture)

Jackson, Bruce & Diane Christian

ISBN 10: 0807835390 / ISBN 13: 9780807835395

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 2012

About this Item

Includes a DVD of the documentary 'Death Row'. Light surface wear. ; 1 x 9.28 x 8.31 Inches; 256 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In This Timeless Time Living and Dying on Death Row in America (Includes a DVD of the documentary film Death Row) (Documentary Arts and Culture)
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807835390
• ISBN 13: 9780807835395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Weight: 2.22 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
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About this title

Synopsis

In this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other states, as well as the convoluted and arbitrary judicial processes that populate all Death Rows. They document the capriciousness of capital punishment and capture the day-to-day experiences of Death Row inmates in the official "nonperiod" between sentencing and execution.

In the first section, "Pictures," ninety-two photographs taken during their fieldwork for the book and documentary film Death Row illustrate life on cell block J in Ellis Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections. The second section, "Words," further reveals the world of Death Row prisoners and offers an unflinching commentary on the judicial system and the fates of the men they met on the Row. The third section, "Working," addresses profound moral and ethical issues the authors have encountered throughout their careers documenting the Row.

Included is a DVD of Jackson and Christian's 1979 documentary film, Death Row.

About the Authors

Bruce Jackson is James Agee Professor of American Culture and SUNY Distinguished Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is author of numerous books and films, including the book Pictures from a Drawer: Prison and the Art of Portraiture.

Diane Christian, a poet, scholar of religious literature, and recognized documentarian, is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Jackson and Christian cowrote Death Row in addition to producing and directing the film of the same name.