Imagining the American Death Penalty - Christ, Birte
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Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the ways in which US American culture represented capital punishment in film and television from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on early film, crime film noir, and legal TV series.

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Imagining the American Death Penalty traces the ways in which US American culture represented capital punishment in film and television from the 1890s to the twenty-first century. The book focuses on early film, crime film noir, and legal TV series.
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Birte Christ has been teaching American Literature, Culture, and Media at Giessen University since 2009. Her work has focused on gender studies, book studies, the modernist and post-modernist novel, contemporary American politics and its media, but most importantly on Law and Literature and on the American death penalty. She has published on related issues such as the death penalty in Germany, and she has co-edited a volume on literary representations of the death penalty (Death Sentences, 2019). Her research has been supported, among others, by the American Antiquarian Society, the Karl Loewenstein Fellowship at Amherst College, and the Humboldt Foundation.