Deflecting the Political in the Visual Images of Execution and the Death Penalty Debate

College English Jul 2005

Deflecting the Political in the Visual Images of Execution and the Death Penalty Debate

Diana George ; Diane Shoos

Abstract

Examining a range of visual images of executions, both legal (the executions of convicted murderers) and extralegal (the lynchings of innocent African Americans), in still photographs and in Hollywood films, the authors suggest that while such images may flatten and neutralize the popular debates and politics surrounding the issues, this is not inevitable, and that if we work at sustaining careful attention to its operations the image is neither self-evident nor doomed to obscure the political.

Journal: College English
Published: 2005-07-01
DOI: 10.58680/ce20054091
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality online writing instruction multilingual writers

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