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2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty

2008-05-28T07:57:40Z

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'''Thursday, May 29, 20.45, my place, Tannenkampstr. 12'''

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player ''The Player''] (1992)

(you supply drink, I'll supply food), --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:24, 14 May 2008 (CEST)
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* Fr 14 - 16
* A10 1-121a
* [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
*[[Mastermodul]] Klausurvorbereitend: American Studies

The implementation of the death penalty is one of the major cultural differences between the US and Europe today. A number of movies have over the past two decades dealt with, if not effectively fuelled, the public controversy about capital punishment. The seminar will analyse and discuss some of these films against the background of the present debate and in a comparison with movies in which vigilante or self-administered justice and poetic justice create a form of capital punishment - more or less provocatively - beyond the reach of the public debate.

==April 11: Introduction==
Discussion of the seminar plan and modes of participation.

==April 18: Emotional imbalances: ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
*Dead Man Walking (1995)
Plot line, emotional balance, sympathies and how they are created, political messages.

==April 25: The reception of ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
'''Wednesday, 23, 2008, 20:45''' my place, Tannenkampstr. 12: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ein kurzer Film über das Töten (Poland 1988) [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_kurzer_Film_%C3%BCber_das_T%C3%B6ten German wikipedia]

'''Course preparation'''

''Dead Man Walking'' (1995) as an influential film - debates it managed to raise, debates which just joined the ongoing debate. We need a presentation on the reception history of the film (worth an ensuing seminar paper).

We will have three short presentations on the death penalty focussing on its more ore less "humane" modalities
*Antje + Marie Katrin: A historical perspective. Background: Michel Foucault ''Discipline and Punish'' (1975). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish wikipedia] on the subject and read the first pages of the book which should be available in the library (you may refer to the German translation ''Überwachen und Strafen''). Another good book on the subject is Cesare Beccaria's (1738-1794) ''Of Crimes and Punishments'', available on the web in English: [http://www.constitution.org/cb/crim_pun.htm ''Of Crimes and Punishments'' (1764)].
*Philipp promised to take a look at the present US-debate - a good starting point is again [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States wikipedia] where you will find a chapter on methods used in the US.
*Jochen: will take a look at the general debate of humane executions. A good starting point are the links you get if you google Michael Portillo on the subject [http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22Michael+Portillo%22+%22humane+execution%22&btnG=Search]

All others are requested to take a look at the reception of the film and to feed their information into this page: [[Tim Robbins (dir.), Dead Man Walking (1995 film)|Dead Man Walking (USA 1995)]]. Give your link and a summary of your result. We should get an idea of the debate the film was able to produce to then compare this debate with the debate we had in class.

==May 2: Truth and fiction==
* ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)
* ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story'' (2004)
Both films dealt with actual cases. Was this link to reality important? How was it used in the film and in the ensuing debate?

Some Links:

*http://www.tookie.com/tookie_fact_sheet_10.18.05.pdf
*http://da.co.la.ca.us/pdf/swilliams.pdf
*http://www.savetookie.org/ // http://www.tookie.com/
*Snoop Dogg at San Quentin Prison speaking on Tookie http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=qASQBKwngsE&feature=related
::--[[User:Sonja|Sonja Büsing]] 13:30, 02.05.2008

==May 5: The dark side==
*''Monster’s Ball'' (2001)
*''Identity'' (2003)
*''The Green Mile'' (1999)
The capital punishment seems to have a dark side - how is this dark side connected with the general appeal of the death penalty?

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Dear Participants of my Seminar on Capital Punishment in US Movies,

I still have not quite made up my mind about how we should proceed. I wanted to see a larger number of these films to get an idea of the "genre" - if one can speak of such a genre.

...and I think one can. People have ideas about what a movie of "this kind" should include. The advertising material for ''Monster's Ball'' proves the existence of the genre by denying that this film fits into it. ''Last Dance'' on the other hand blatantly exploits the genre conventions (of which I'd like to have the clearer picture) - at times ''Last Dance'' is almost a copy of ''Dead Man Walking'' though with reversed roles.

*Option one: We take a look into ''Last Dance'' - the debate might be flat at the moment, it might circle around ''Dead Man Walking'' as the movie with which one will compare the film.
*Option two: We take another look at ''Green Mile'' - I had a problem with the video projector last time and would make sure that we won't have the same problem again. Contra-indication here: It might be difficult to get an interesting discussion, since I did not plan two sessions with distinct topics before hand. I still have my own questions - yet I realised it is difficult to give them momentum: I am intrigued about this kind of magic realism. It makes me feel uneasy. I have spent some thoughts on this uneasiness over the weekend and realised it is a general problem I have with materials which want to be interpreted. It is the role of the intended interpretation per se which makes me ask for a cultural theory of such materials and their potentials (a difficult topic).
*Option three: We change the plan an move on to ''David Gale'' for next session. As you know I did not like the film - wondering whether it does not blatantly discredit the movement of human rights activists opposing capital punishment. I would offer an option to watch the movie at my place tomorrow, Thursday, 20.45 pm.

The reshuffling of the schedule could give us a chance to directly move on to Robert Altman's film and to use the questions Altman asks for the more interesting debate of ''Last Dance'' and ''True Crime'' in the ensuing sessions.

I am slightly in favour of option three - need, however, your consent to prepare ''David Gale'' for Friday.

I am also still waiting for the clearer picture of your personal plans of seminar-work. The seminar will not become interesting if you do not turn it into the platform on which you take your first steps into the works you intend to write. I want you to use the seminar to test observations and ideas and to get feedback from your colleagues,

best, --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:07, 14 May 2008 (CEST)

::PS ''Last Dance'' would (if we took option three) become part of three sessions circling around Altman's film. ''A Time to Kill'' would move into the self administered justice section. ''True Crime'' and ''Dirty Harry'' would move closer together.

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* I'd prefer option three just because I didn't like the "Green Mile" too much. Heard quite a lot about "David Gale" and would like to see it. (Marie-Ann Mowka)
* ''David Gale'' would be okay, although I'd like to further discuss ''The Green Mile'', as well. However, maybe we should discuss the further outline of the seminar in the next session, which would give us the possibility to shift the postion of some films... --[[User:Bastian Martens|Bastian Martens]] 11:21, 15 May 2008 (CEST)
*I think we should catch up with the "Green Mile" material we were up to watch last week and then continue with "David Gale". (Raimund Teske)
* I agree with Raimund

==May 16: Rescheduling the Course, Ideas for individual seminar papers discussed==
*Andrea Kröger: Vigilantism. (See also the film list at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante en.wikipedia]
*Jochen Berkowsky: Lars von Trier, ''Dancer in the Dark'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancer_in_the_dark en.wikipedia] - a European perspective on capital punishment in the USA.
*Philipp Kreutzer, ''The Life of David Gale'' (2003) - Public reception
*Anna Rozwadowska, Vigilantism.

Hauke Uterhark proposed to add David Fincher's ''Seven'' (1995) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%28film%29 en.wikipedia] to our selection of vigilantism films.

==May 23: Human rights activists on trial?==

*''The Life of David Gale'' (2003)
''The Life of David Gale'' (2003) is probably the worst movie on the list - worth examining as a questionable item. Philipp promised a Thesenpapier (questions he will ask in his seminar paper, views he would try to prove, ideas how he might prove what he would like to prove...) --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 13:26, 17 May 2008 (CEST)

==May 30: Hollywood on trial==
*''The Player'' (1992)
Invites a reevaluation of the films we have seen so far.

'''Additional Screening:''' Wednesday 5/28/08, Brandsweg 25, 8 p.m., Hagemann (movie will be there, bring what you need) Jochen & Jens

(Anna Rozwadowska)
Hi everybody. I am interested in an additional screening "session" because I can´t come on thursday; who else is? I would prefer wednesday evening. I can offer my place (which is Tannenkampstr. 31) if there is no other possible place to meet.
But: somebody would have to bring the film :)

==June 6: Is there a Genre of Execution Row Movies?==
*Central film: ''Last Dance'' (1996)

''Last Dance'' has a number of scenes which seem to recall ''Dead Man Walking''. Clint Esastwood's ''True Crime'' is another good candidate for a film produced against the backdrop of genre conventions.

Isabelle promised a talk on the question of arguments and emotions.

==June 13: European Perspectives: Lars von Trier's "Dancer In The Dark"==
Lars von Trier, ''Dancer in the Dark'' (2000) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancer_in_the_dark en.wikipedia]

Jochen Berkowsky will offer a presentation.

==June 20: Religion and the Death Penalty==
*Central Film: David Fincher ''Seven'' (1995)

Religion was a topic throughout the semester: ''Dead Man Walking'' portrayed sister Helen Prejean taking care of a man sentenced to death. ''Green Mile'' could be interpreted as religious allegory. Eastwood's ''True Crime'' has an interesting confrontation here - and a script which can be understood as deciding the case.

''Seven'' - the central film of the session - is already a film on vigilantism and hence a good option to bridge the topics.

==June 27: 27.06. Vigilantism==
* ''A Time to Kill'' (1996)

Topic and session need more consideration. Andrea promised a talk on a TV-series I have not seen.

==July 4: ''Brave One''==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_One_%282007_film%29 ''The Brave One''] (2007) directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster. A mayhem victim avenges the death of her husband under the protection of the police officer who is supposed to solve the case. [http://thebraveone.warnerbros.com/ www.thebraveone.warnerbros.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476964/ IMDb]

==July 11: Final session==
Look back on the seminar and my feedback on the seminar evaluation.

===Topics===
====Background information====
* The history of the death penalty and Foucault's work.
* The legal status in the US
* Pro and contra: interest groups
* The question of method - from electrocution to the lethal injection - what is the function of the debate?
* Religion and the death penalty

====Seminar papers====
Be creative! And open a special section on the [[Talk:2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty|Discussion page]] to give outlines of topics you are interested in.

=== Films in which the death penalty plays a major role ===

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972554/ ''Execution''] (2007) directed by Steven Scaffidi. In the year 1995 two filmmakers gained access to death row and filmed the final seven days of a man before he got executed. The Warden confiscated the film footage, but ten years later the filmmakers get the film footage back. You can see some pictures and a trailor on www.executionfilm.com (Andrea)

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption:_The_Stan_Tookie_Williams_Story ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story''] (2004) (TV) Film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and starring Jamie Foxx. The film is based on the true story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the "Crips", a street gang in L.A. He was accused of murder, prisoned and executed. While in Death Row, he started writing children's novels, which earned him Nobel Peace Prize nominations. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388367/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale ''The Life of David Gale''] (2003) directed by Alan Parker, starring Kate Winslet and Kevin Spacey. An acitivist against the death penalty is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sentenced to death. While he is in prison, he tells his story to a reporter in flashbacks. http://www.thelifeofdavidgale.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_%28film%29 ''Monster''] (2003) directed by Patty Jenkins Adapting the true story of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/ IMDb] not ordered for library

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%27s_ball ''Monster’s Ball''] (2001) directed by Marc Foster, starring Oscar-Winner Halle Barry and Billy Bob Thornton. Thornton plays a racist prison guard who falls in love with the wife of the last prisoner he executed and reexamines his own attitudes. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285742/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_%28film%29 ''The Green Mile''] (1999) directed by Frank Darabont, starring Tom Hanks and Micheal Clarke Duncan. The lives of prison guards leading the condemned prisoners to their executions, one of them went to prison on false accusation. http://thegreenmile.warnerbros.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Crime_%281999_film%29 ''True Crime''] (1999) directed by Clint Eastwood, based on Andrew Klavan's novel, who also wrote the screenplay. Frank Beachum was sentenced to death but claims to be innocent. Steve Everett played by Eastwood is a journalist who attempts to find the truth about the murder. [http://www.truecrimethemovie.com/ www.truecrimethemovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139668/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Dance_%28film%29 ''Last Dance''] (1996) directed by Bruce Beresford. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116827/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_%28film%29 ''Dead Man Walking''] (1995) directed by Tim Robbins, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112818/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player ''The Player''] (1992) directed by Robert Altman using a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/ IMDb]

=== Films in which self-administered justice becomes a major topic ===

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Sentence_%28film%29 ''Death Sentence''] (2007) A drama directed by James Wan. With Kevin Bacon, John Goodman and Kelly Preston. An executive witnesses a crime that changes his life. He wants to protect his family and seeks revenge. [http://www.deathsentencemovie.com/ www.deathsentencemovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804461/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_One_%282007_film%29 ''The Brave One''] (2007) directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster. A mayhem victim avenges the death of her husband under the protection of the police officer who is supposed to solve the case. [http://thebraveone.warnerbros.com/ www.thebraveone.warnerbros.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476964/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punisher_%282004_film%29 ''The Punisher''] (2004) directed by Jonathan Hensleigh. After his wife and family are killed, Frank Castle takes it upon himself to distribute punishment to those responsible for the vendetta. [http://www.punishermovie.com/ www.punishermovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330793/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_(film) ''Double Jeopardy''] (1999) directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones. An innocent woman is sentenced to death for the murder of her husband. While in prison, she discovers that her husband is still alive and that he and her best friend betrayed her. After her release on probation, she wants to take revenge; based on the American law that a person cannot be re-accused of the same crime. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150377/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(film) ''A Time to Kill''] (1996) based on the novel written by John Grisham. A father takes revenge on the rapists of his daughter. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry ''Dirty Harry''] (1971) with its sequels which handle the topic of vigilante justice in variations till [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Pool ''The Dead Pool''] (1988).

=== Films in which the accidental death of the criminal reestablishes a higher justice ===

=== Documentary films (German/additional/available at the university library) ===

* Dubois, Jean-Paul. ''Henker erzählen: Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankreich, 2004. Fernsehmitschnitt Sw: USA. Fernsehmitschnitt: WDR, 22.10.2004. (VHS, farb., 50 Min.) (Dokumentation über Henker in den USA, die sich kritisch mit ihrer Arbeit und der Todesstrafe auseinandersetzen)

* Kessel, Julie von. ''The Innocence Project.'' Deutschland, 2002. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 03.12.2002. (VHS, farb., 20 Min.) (Bericht über ein DNA-Projekt der New Yorker Columbia University, das sich mit Schuld oder Unschuld zum Tode Verurteilter beschäftigt.)

* Steinberg, Klaus; Bock, Astrid. ''Leben mit der Hinrichtung: Begegnungen im Todestrakt.'' Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ZDF (37 Grad), 12.08.1997. (VHS, farb., 30 Min.') (Bericht über zum Tode verurteilte Häftlinge in den USA.)

* Walwin, Kent; Trombley, Stephen [Reg.]. ''L 'état meurtrier'' = Der Staat als Mörder. Deutschland/Frankreich, 1996. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 21.3.1996, 20,45 Uhr. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., farb., 75 Min.) (Auseinandersetzung um die Todesstrafe vom Ursprung bis zur heutigen Praxis in den USA)

* Hoewijk, Jaap van. ''Procedure 769: a hanging.'' Niederlande, 1995. Fernsehmitschnitt: West 3, 15.4.1996, 23,00 Uhr. (VHS, farb., 80 Min) (Der Film geht der Frage nach, warum Angehörige des Täters und der Opfer von Robert A. Harris dessen Hinrichtung beiwohnten.)

* Leacock, Richard; Pennebaker, Don Alan. ''The chair'' = Der Stuhl. Monospur dt., Stereospur engl. USA, 1963. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 18.10.1996. (VHS, s/w, 75 Min.) (Documentary about the death sentence.)

* Reinhold, Frank. ''Take care'' = Gib auf dich acht! Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 10.6.1997. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., Stereospur franz., farb., 60 Min.) (Die Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem in den USA zum Tode verurteilten Schwarzen Arthur Lee Williams und einer Deutschen von Amnesty International.)

===Literature===
MLA on "Death Penalty", "Capital Punishment", "Execution", "The Player"

'''2007'''
*Tolkin, Michael. "[Fiction into Film.]" ''BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, & Culture'', 14:2 (2007 June-Aug), pp. 36-37. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-2006).]

'''2006'''
* O'Shea, Kathleen. Killing the Killers: Women on Death Row in the United States. pp. 67-82. Burfoot, Annette (ed. and introd.) Lord, Susan (ed. and introd.). ''Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence'' Cultural Studies Series. 6. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2006. xxii, 328 pp. (Book article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; television; in United States; 1998; treatment of women murderers; religious conversion; relationship to capital punishment; social conventions; of femininity; objectification.]

'''2005'''
* George, Diana and Shoos, Diane. "Deflecting the Political in the Visual Images of Execution and the Death Penalty Debate". ''College English'', 67:6 (2005 July), pp. 587-609. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; compared to photographs; of lynching; relationship to witness; voyeurism.]
*Poirot, Valérie. Cinéma et engagement: Représentations de la peine de mort et images d'exécution dans les productions américaines et françaises. ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 66:3 (2005 Sept), p. 798. (Dissertation abstract) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; in France; United States; 1970-1999; treatment of execution.]
* Reinelt, Janelle. "The Ambivalence of Catholic Compassion". ''Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism'', 20:1 (2005 Fall), pp. 103-12. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to Christianity.]
*Schuyler, Michael T. "'Traffic Was a Bitch': Gender, Race and Spectatorship in Robert Altman's The Player." ''Journal of Narrative Theory'', 35:2 (2005 Summer), pp. 218-47. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of women; blacks; relationship to spectator; in Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992).]

'''2003'''
* Horeck, Tanya. "From Documentary to Drama: Capturing Aileen Wuornos." ''Screen'', 48:2 (2007 Summer), pp. 141-59. [Treatment of Wuornos, Aileen (1956-2002); women murderers; capital punishment; in Broomfield, Nicholas (1948-) and Churchill, Joan: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) compared to Jenkins, Patty (1971-): Monster (2003).] see: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos:_The_Selling_of_a_Serial_Killer en.wikipedia.org]
*Goldsmith, David F. "Monster." ''Creative Screenwriting'', 11:1 (2004 Jan-Feb), pp. 30-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; crime film; treatment of prostitute; sexual abuse; relationship to revenge; capital punishment; in Jenkins, Patty: Monster (2003).]
* Meranze, Michael. "Michel Foucault, the Death Penalty and the Crisis of Historical Understanding." ''Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques,'' 29:2 (2003 Summer), pp. 191-209. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: French literature; 1900-1999; Foucault, Michel (1926-1984): L'Histoire de la sexualité (1976); History of Sexuality: "Il faut défendre la société"; prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to war; race; power.]
* Parker, Alan. "Gale Force: My Personal Journey to a Death Row Drama." ''Film Journal International'', 106:2 (2003 Feb), p. 12, 30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; in Parker, Alan (1944-): The Life of David Gale (2003); interview.]

'''1999'''
*Neubert, Ingo. "Sichtweisen des Fremden: Der amerikanische Dokumentarfilm und das Lernziel interkultureller Kompetenz: Dargestellt an der Direct-Cinema-Produktion The Chair zur Situation der Todesstrafe in den USA." ''Anglistik und Englischunterricht'', 62 (1999), pp. 407-30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; documentary film; treatment of capital punishment; in Drew, Robert L. (1924-): The Chair (1962).]
*Prédal, René. "The Player ou la mort du scénariste," pp. 127-47. Estève, Michel (ed. and introd.). ''Robert Altman.'' Paris, France: Minard, 1999. 209 pp. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; intertextuality; plot; relationship to Hollywood; in screenplay; for film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]
* Stoekl, Allan. "Execution and the Human." ''Intertexts'', 3:1 (1999 Spring), pp. 3-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Dick, Philip K. (1928-1982): Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968); novel; treatment of capital punishment; murder; human condition; in Scott, Ridley (1938-): Blade Runner (1982) as film adaptation compared to Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804): Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre.]

'''1998'''
*Lauritzen, Paul. "The Knowing Heart: Moral Argument and the Appeal to Experience". ''Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal'', 81:1-2 (1998 Spring-Summer), pp. 213-34. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to morality; experience.]

'''1997'''
* Guest, David. ''Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment.'' Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1997. xx, 179 pp. (Book) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; novel; treatment of capital punishment.]
*Nayman, Ira. "The Adaptable Altman." ''Creative Screenwriting,'' 4:3 (1997 Fall), pp. 84-96. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959): The Long Goodbye (1954); novel; and Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); Carver, Raymond (1936-1988); role of film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]

'''1994'''
*Danziger, Marie. "Basic Instinct: Grappling for Post-Modern Mind Control." ''Literature/Film Quarterly,'' 22:1 (1994), pp. 7-10. [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of power; in Verhoeven, Paul (1938-): Basic Instinct (1992); Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992)]
*Pilipp, Frank. "Satirizing Hollywood: The Self-Referentiality of Robert Altman's The Player: Co-Sponsored by the Virginia Humanities Conf. and the Virginia Center for Media and Culture," pp. 80-84. Schwartz, Joel (introd.). ''Proceedings of the Conference on Film and American Culture.'' Williamsburg: Roy R. Charles Center, College of William and Mary, 1994. 111 pp.

'''1992'''
*Richolson, Janice. "The Player: An Interview with Robert Altman." ''Cineaste: America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema,''' 19:2-3 (1992), p. 61.

=== Further reading (available at the library) ===

* Amnesty International. ''Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1989.

* Bedau, Hugo A. [Hrsg.] ''Capital punishment in the United States.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1976. ISBN 0-404-10325-1

* Martschukat, Jürgen. ''Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Nordamerika: von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart.'' 1. Ed. München: Beck, 2002. ISBN 3-406-47611-2 (Pb.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition.'' New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001. (not available at the library)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Crime and punishment: perspectives from the humanities.'' Vol. 37. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005. ISBN 0-7623-1245-9 (hbk.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Punishment politics and culture.'' Vol. 30. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004. ISBN 0-7623-1072-3

* Schwed, Roger E. ''Abolition and capital punishment: the United States' judicial, political, and moral barometer.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1983. ISBN 0-404-61623-2

====Fiction (additional) ====

* John Grisham, ''The Chamber''. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
* Victor Hugo, ''The Last Day of a Condemned Man'' [1829]. London: Hesperus Press Ltd., 2002.

=== Links ===
* [http://www.film.com/ www.film.com] Movie Trailers and Times, Reviews and Previews, Celebreties, TV, DVD etc.
* [http://elokuvantaju.uiah.fi/2001/english/study_material/study_material.jsp Cinemasense] Study material on cinematic techniques, including a word search for cinematic terms, which are explained and illustrated by film stills.
* [http://www.nitpickers.com/ nitpickers.com] Movie mistakes, movie errors, movie reviews.
* [http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms1.html Cinematic Terms - A Film-Making Glossary] Study material on cinematic terms explained and illustrated by examples.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States Capital punishment in the United States] - en.wikipedia.org
* [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ deathpenaltyinfo.org] Including a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=132&scid=17 List of Articles] and a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=130&scid=20 List of Books] on the Death Penalty.
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=main&menu=1 deathpenalty.org] "The Death Penalty Focus", an organization against the Death Penalty founded in 1988.
* [http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/states/maps/contents.htm deathpenaltycurriculum.org/states/maps] Interactive U.S. maps on the Death Penalty, including methods of execution, homicides and use of the death penalty, and execution on death row inmates (all by state).
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/CurriculumFeb.2006.pdf deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/curriculum] A pdf file showing suggested lesson plans for teachers. Including case studies, material on discussions, exams and essays, history of the Death Penalty, laws, international views and a suggested general reading list.
* Jonsson, Patrick. "Is self-defence law vigilante justice?". The Christian Science Monitor Feb. 24 2003 <http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0224/p02s01-usju.html>
* Guarnera, Daniel. "Hard to Kill: Why Can’t the U.S. Find a Suitable Execution Method?". International Review Jan. 4 2007 <http://www.internationalistreview.com/article.php?id=52>
* [http://watchthesimpsonsonline.com/movie/68-The_Simpsons_1321_The_Frying_Game.html The Simpsons 13x21 The Frying Game] Fun Stuff: An episode of "The Simpsons" showing Homer and Marge being accused of murder and sentenced to death, but before Homer's execution on the electric chair, it is revealed that they are actually in a TV-Show called "Frame Up". The episode 'criticises' (in the Simpsons manner) the Realtity Show that presents the Death Penalty as a show for a TV audience. In addition, there is a short reference to "Dead Man Walking" and "The Green Mile".

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Mastermodul]]
[[Category:Capital Punishment]]

2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty

2008-05-28T07:56:43Z

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'''Thursday, May 29, 20.45, my place, Tannenkampstr. 12'''

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player ''The Player''] (1992)

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* Fr 14 - 16
* A10 1-121a
* [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
*[[Mastermodul]] Klausurvorbereitend: American Studies

The implementation of the death penalty is one of the major cultural differences between the US and Europe today. A number of movies have over the past two decades dealt with, if not effectively fuelled, the public controversy about capital punishment. The seminar will analyse and discuss some of these films against the background of the present debate and in a comparison with movies in which vigilante or self-administered justice and poetic justice create a form of capital punishment - more or less provocatively - beyond the reach of the public debate.

==April 11: Introduction==
Discussion of the seminar plan and modes of participation.

==April 18: Emotional imbalances: ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
*Dead Man Walking (1995)
Plot line, emotional balance, sympathies and how they are created, political messages.

==April 25: The reception of ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
'''Wednesday, 23, 2008, 20:45''' my place, Tannenkampstr. 12: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ein kurzer Film über das Töten (Poland 1988) [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_kurzer_Film_%C3%BCber_das_T%C3%B6ten German wikipedia]

'''Course preparation'''

''Dead Man Walking'' (1995) as an influential film - debates it managed to raise, debates which just joined the ongoing debate. We need a presentation on the reception history of the film (worth an ensuing seminar paper).

We will have three short presentations on the death penalty focussing on its more ore less "humane" modalities
*Antje + Marie Katrin: A historical perspective. Background: Michel Foucault ''Discipline and Punish'' (1975). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish wikipedia] on the subject and read the first pages of the book which should be available in the library (you may refer to the German translation ''Überwachen und Strafen''). Another good book on the subject is Cesare Beccaria's (1738-1794) ''Of Crimes and Punishments'', available on the web in English: [http://www.constitution.org/cb/crim_pun.htm ''Of Crimes and Punishments'' (1764)].
*Philipp promised to take a look at the present US-debate - a good starting point is again [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States wikipedia] where you will find a chapter on methods used in the US.
*Jochen: will take a look at the general debate of humane executions. A good starting point are the links you get if you google Michael Portillo on the subject [http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22Michael+Portillo%22+%22humane+execution%22&btnG=Search]

All others are requested to take a look at the reception of the film and to feed their information into this page: [[Tim Robbins (dir.), Dead Man Walking (1995 film)|Dead Man Walking (USA 1995)]]. Give your link and a summary of your result. We should get an idea of the debate the film was able to produce to then compare this debate with the debate we had in class.

==May 2: Truth and fiction==
* ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)
* ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story'' (2004)
Both films dealt with actual cases. Was this link to reality important? How was it used in the film and in the ensuing debate?

Some Links:

*http://www.tookie.com/tookie_fact_sheet_10.18.05.pdf
*http://da.co.la.ca.us/pdf/swilliams.pdf
*http://www.savetookie.org/ // http://www.tookie.com/
*Snoop Dogg at San Quentin Prison speaking on Tookie http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=qASQBKwngsE&feature=related
::--[[User:Sonja|Sonja Büsing]] 13:30, 02.05.2008

==May 5: The dark side==
*''Monster’s Ball'' (2001)
*''Identity'' (2003)
*''The Green Mile'' (1999)
The capital punishment seems to have a dark side - how is this dark side connected with the general appeal of the death penalty?

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Dear Participants of my Seminar on Capital Punishment in US Movies,

I still have not quite made up my mind about how we should proceed. I wanted to see a larger number of these films to get an idea of the "genre" - if one can speak of such a genre.

...and I think one can. People have ideas about what a movie of "this kind" should include. The advertising material for ''Monster's Ball'' proves the existence of the genre by denying that this film fits into it. ''Last Dance'' on the other hand blatantly exploits the genre conventions (of which I'd like to have the clearer picture) - at times ''Last Dance'' is almost a copy of ''Dead Man Walking'' though with reversed roles.

*Option one: We take a look into ''Last Dance'' - the debate might be flat at the moment, it might circle around ''Dead Man Walking'' as the movie with which one will compare the film.
*Option two: We take another look at ''Green Mile'' - I had a problem with the video projector last time and would make sure that we won't have the same problem again. Contra-indication here: It might be difficult to get an interesting discussion, since I did not plan two sessions with distinct topics before hand. I still have my own questions - yet I realised it is difficult to give them momentum: I am intrigued about this kind of magic realism. It makes me feel uneasy. I have spent some thoughts on this uneasiness over the weekend and realised it is a general problem I have with materials which want to be interpreted. It is the role of the intended interpretation per se which makes me ask for a cultural theory of such materials and their potentials (a difficult topic).
*Option three: We change the plan an move on to ''David Gale'' for next session. As you know I did not like the film - wondering whether it does not blatantly discredit the movement of human rights activists opposing capital punishment. I would offer an option to watch the movie at my place tomorrow, Thursday, 20.45 pm.

The reshuffling of the schedule could give us a chance to directly move on to Robert Altman's film and to use the questions Altman asks for the more interesting debate of ''Last Dance'' and ''True Crime'' in the ensuing sessions.

I am slightly in favour of option three - need, however, your consent to prepare ''David Gale'' for Friday.

I am also still waiting for the clearer picture of your personal plans of seminar-work. The seminar will not become interesting if you do not turn it into the platform on which you take your first steps into the works you intend to write. I want you to use the seminar to test observations and ideas and to get feedback from your colleagues,

best, --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:07, 14 May 2008 (CEST)

::PS ''Last Dance'' would (if we took option three) become part of three sessions circling around Altman's film. ''A Time to Kill'' would move into the self administered justice section. ''True Crime'' and ''Dirty Harry'' would move closer together.

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* I'd prefer option three just because I didn't like the "Green Mile" too much. Heard quite a lot about "David Gale" and would like to see it. (Marie-Ann Mowka)
* ''David Gale'' would be okay, although I'd like to further discuss ''The Green Mile'', as well. However, maybe we should discuss the further outline of the seminar in the next session, which would give us the possibility to shift the postion of some films... --[[User:Bastian Martens|Bastian Martens]] 11:21, 15 May 2008 (CEST)
*I think we should catch up with the "Green Mile" material we were up to watch last week and then continue with "David Gale". (Raimund Teske)
* I agree with Raimund

==May 16: Rescheduling the Course, Ideas for individual seminar papers discussed==
*Andrea Kröger: Vigilantism. (See also the film list at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilante en.wikipedia]
*Jochen Berkowsky: Lars von Trier, ''Dancer in the Dark'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancer_in_the_dark en.wikipedia] - a European perspective on capital punishment in the USA.
*Philipp Kreutzer, ''The Life of David Gale'' (2003) - Public reception
*Anna Rozwadowska, Vigilantism.

Hauke Uterhark proposed to add David Fincher's ''Seven'' (1995) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_%28film%29 en.wikipedia] to our selection of vigilantism films.

==May 23: Human rights activists on trial?==

*''The Life of David Gale'' (2003)
''The Life of David Gale'' (2003) is probably the worst movie on the list - worth examining as a questionable item. Philipp promised a Thesenpapier (questions he will ask in his seminar paper, views he would try to prove, ideas how he might prove what he would like to prove...) --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 13:26, 17 May 2008 (CEST)

==May 30: Hollywood on trial==
*''The Player'' (1992)
Invites a reevaluation of the films we have seen so far.

'''Additional Screening:''' Wednesday 5/28/08, Brandsweg 25, 8 p.m., Hagemann (movie will be there, bring what you need) Jochen & Jens

(Anna Rozwadowska)
Hi everybody. I am interested in an additional screening "session" because I can´t come on thursday; who else is? I would prefer wednesday evening. I can offer my place (which is Tannenkampstr. 31) if there is no other possible place to meet.
But: somebody would have to bring the film :)

==June 6: Is there a Genre of Execution Row Movies?==
*Central film: ''Last Dance'' (1996)

''Last Dance'' has a number of scenes which seem to recall ''Dead Man Walking''. Clint Esastwood's ''True Crime'' is another good candidate for a film produced against the backdrop of genre conventions.

Isabelle promised a talk on the question of arguments and emotions.

==June 13: European Perspectives: Lars von Trier's "Dancer In The Dark"==
Lars von Trier, ''Dancer in the Dark'' (2000) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancer_in_the_dark en.wikipedia]

Jochen Berkowsky will offer a presentation.

==June 20: Religion and the Death Penalty==
*Central Film: David Fincher ''Seven'' (1995)

Religion was a topic throughout the semester: ''Dead Man Walking'' portrayed sister Helen Prejean taking care of a man sentenced to death. ''Green Mile'' could be interpreted as religious allegory. Eastwood's ''True Crime'' has an interesting confrontation here - and a script which can be understood as deciding the case.

''Seven'' - the central film of the session - is already a film on vigilantism and hence a good option to bridge the topics.

==June 27: 27.06. Vigilantism==
* ''A Time to Kill'' (1996)

Topic and session need more consideration. Andrea promised a talk on a TV-series I have not seen.

==July 4: ''Brave One''==
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_One_%282007_film%29 ''The Brave One''] (2007) directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster. A mayhem victim avenges the death of her husband under the protection of the police officer who is supposed to solve the case. [http://thebraveone.warnerbros.com/ www.thebraveone.warnerbros.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476964/ IMDb]

==July 11: Final session==
Look back on the seminar and my feedback on the seminar evaluation.

===Topics===
====Background information====
* The history of the death penalty and Foucault's work.
* The legal status in the US
* Pro and contra: interest groups
* The question of method - from electrocution to the lethal injection - what is the function of the debate?
* Religion and the death penalty

====Seminar papers====
Be creative! And open a special section on the [[Talk:2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty|Discussion page]] to give outlines of topics you are interested in.

=== Films in which the death penalty plays a major role ===

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972554/ ''Execution''] (2007) directed by Steven Scaffidi. In the year 1995 two filmmakers gained access to death row and filmed the final seven days of a man before he got executed. The Warden confiscated the film footage, but ten years later the filmmakers get the film footage back. You can see some pictures and a trailor on www.executionfilm.com (Andrea)

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption:_The_Stan_Tookie_Williams_Story ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story''] (2004) (TV) Film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and starring Jamie Foxx. The film is based on the true story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the "Crips", a street gang in L.A. He was accused of murder, prisoned and executed. While in Death Row, he started writing children's novels, which earned him Nobel Peace Prize nominations. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388367/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale ''The Life of David Gale''] (2003) directed by Alan Parker, starring Kate Winslet and Kevin Spacey. An acitivist against the death penalty is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sentenced to death. While he is in prison, he tells his story to a reporter in flashbacks. http://www.thelifeofdavidgale.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_%28film%29 ''Monster''] (2003) directed by Patty Jenkins Adapting the true story of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/ IMDb] not ordered for library

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%27s_ball ''Monster’s Ball''] (2001) directed by Marc Foster, starring Oscar-Winner Halle Barry and Billy Bob Thornton. Thornton plays a racist prison guard who falls in love with the wife of the last prisoner he executed and reexamines his own attitudes. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285742/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_%28film%29 ''The Green Mile''] (1999) directed by Frank Darabont, starring Tom Hanks and Micheal Clarke Duncan. The lives of prison guards leading the condemned prisoners to their executions, one of them went to prison on false accusation. http://thegreenmile.warnerbros.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Crime_%281999_film%29 ''True Crime''] (1999) directed by Clint Eastwood, based on Andrew Klavan's novel, who also wrote the screenplay. Frank Beachum was sentenced to death but claims to be innocent. Steve Everett played by Eastwood is a journalist who attempts to find the truth about the murder. [http://www.truecrimethemovie.com/ www.truecrimethemovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139668/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Dance_%28film%29 ''Last Dance''] (1996) directed by Bruce Beresford. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116827/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_%28film%29 ''Dead Man Walking''] (1995) directed by Tim Robbins, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112818/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player ''The Player''] (1992) directed by Robert Altman using a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/ IMDb]

=== Films in which self-administered justice becomes a major topic ===

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Sentence_%28film%29 ''Death Sentence''] (2007) A drama directed by James Wan. With Kevin Bacon, John Goodman and Kelly Preston. An executive witnesses a crime that changes his life. He wants to protect his family and seeks revenge. [http://www.deathsentencemovie.com/ www.executionfilm.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804461/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_One_%282007_film%29 ''The Brave One''] (2007) directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster. A mayhem victim avenges the death of her husband under the protection of the police officer who is supposed to solve the case. [http://thebraveone.warnerbros.com/ www.thebraveone.warnerbros.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476964/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punisher_%282004_film%29 ''The Punisher''] (2004) directed by Jonathan Hensleigh. After his wife and family are killed, Frank Castle takes it upon himself to distribute punishment to those responsible for the vendetta. [http://www.punishermovie.com/ www.punishermovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330793/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_(film) ''Double Jeopardy''] (1999) directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones. An innocent woman is sentenced to death for the murder of her husband. While in prison, she discovers that her husband is still alive and that he and her best friend betrayed her. After her release on probation, she wants to take revenge; based on the American law that a person cannot be re-accused of the same crime. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150377/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(film) ''A Time to Kill''] (1996) based on the novel written by John Grisham. A father takes revenge on the rapists of his daughter. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry ''Dirty Harry''] (1971) with its sequels which handle the topic of vigilante justice in variations till [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Pool ''The Dead Pool''] (1988).

=== Films in which the accidental death of the criminal reestablishes a higher justice ===

=== Documentary films (German/additional/available at the university library) ===

* Dubois, Jean-Paul. ''Henker erzählen: Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankreich, 2004. Fernsehmitschnitt Sw: USA. Fernsehmitschnitt: WDR, 22.10.2004. (VHS, farb., 50 Min.) (Dokumentation über Henker in den USA, die sich kritisch mit ihrer Arbeit und der Todesstrafe auseinandersetzen)

* Kessel, Julie von. ''The Innocence Project.'' Deutschland, 2002. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 03.12.2002. (VHS, farb., 20 Min.) (Bericht über ein DNA-Projekt der New Yorker Columbia University, das sich mit Schuld oder Unschuld zum Tode Verurteilter beschäftigt.)

* Steinberg, Klaus; Bock, Astrid. ''Leben mit der Hinrichtung: Begegnungen im Todestrakt.'' Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ZDF (37 Grad), 12.08.1997. (VHS, farb., 30 Min.') (Bericht über zum Tode verurteilte Häftlinge in den USA.)

* Walwin, Kent; Trombley, Stephen [Reg.]. ''L 'état meurtrier'' = Der Staat als Mörder. Deutschland/Frankreich, 1996. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 21.3.1996, 20,45 Uhr. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., farb., 75 Min.) (Auseinandersetzung um die Todesstrafe vom Ursprung bis zur heutigen Praxis in den USA)

* Hoewijk, Jaap van. ''Procedure 769: a hanging.'' Niederlande, 1995. Fernsehmitschnitt: West 3, 15.4.1996, 23,00 Uhr. (VHS, farb., 80 Min) (Der Film geht der Frage nach, warum Angehörige des Täters und der Opfer von Robert A. Harris dessen Hinrichtung beiwohnten.)

* Leacock, Richard; Pennebaker, Don Alan. ''The chair'' = Der Stuhl. Monospur dt., Stereospur engl. USA, 1963. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 18.10.1996. (VHS, s/w, 75 Min.) (Documentary about the death sentence.)

* Reinhold, Frank. ''Take care'' = Gib auf dich acht! Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 10.6.1997. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., Stereospur franz., farb., 60 Min.) (Die Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem in den USA zum Tode verurteilten Schwarzen Arthur Lee Williams und einer Deutschen von Amnesty International.)

===Literature===
MLA on "Death Penalty", "Capital Punishment", "Execution", "The Player"

'''2007'''
*Tolkin, Michael. "[Fiction into Film.]" ''BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, & Culture'', 14:2 (2007 June-Aug), pp. 36-37. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-2006).]

'''2006'''
* O'Shea, Kathleen. Killing the Killers: Women on Death Row in the United States. pp. 67-82. Burfoot, Annette (ed. and introd.) Lord, Susan (ed. and introd.). ''Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence'' Cultural Studies Series. 6. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2006. xxii, 328 pp. (Book article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; television; in United States; 1998; treatment of women murderers; religious conversion; relationship to capital punishment; social conventions; of femininity; objectification.]

'''2005'''
* George, Diana and Shoos, Diane. "Deflecting the Political in the Visual Images of Execution and the Death Penalty Debate". ''College English'', 67:6 (2005 July), pp. 587-609. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; compared to photographs; of lynching; relationship to witness; voyeurism.]
*Poirot, Valérie. Cinéma et engagement: Représentations de la peine de mort et images d'exécution dans les productions américaines et françaises. ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 66:3 (2005 Sept), p. 798. (Dissertation abstract) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; in France; United States; 1970-1999; treatment of execution.]
* Reinelt, Janelle. "The Ambivalence of Catholic Compassion". ''Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism'', 20:1 (2005 Fall), pp. 103-12. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to Christianity.]
*Schuyler, Michael T. "'Traffic Was a Bitch': Gender, Race and Spectatorship in Robert Altman's The Player." ''Journal of Narrative Theory'', 35:2 (2005 Summer), pp. 218-47. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of women; blacks; relationship to spectator; in Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992).]

'''2003'''
* Horeck, Tanya. "From Documentary to Drama: Capturing Aileen Wuornos." ''Screen'', 48:2 (2007 Summer), pp. 141-59. [Treatment of Wuornos, Aileen (1956-2002); women murderers; capital punishment; in Broomfield, Nicholas (1948-) and Churchill, Joan: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) compared to Jenkins, Patty (1971-): Monster (2003).] see: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos:_The_Selling_of_a_Serial_Killer en.wikipedia.org]
*Goldsmith, David F. "Monster." ''Creative Screenwriting'', 11:1 (2004 Jan-Feb), pp. 30-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; crime film; treatment of prostitute; sexual abuse; relationship to revenge; capital punishment; in Jenkins, Patty: Monster (2003).]
* Meranze, Michael. "Michel Foucault, the Death Penalty and the Crisis of Historical Understanding." ''Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques,'' 29:2 (2003 Summer), pp. 191-209. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: French literature; 1900-1999; Foucault, Michel (1926-1984): L'Histoire de la sexualité (1976); History of Sexuality: "Il faut défendre la société"; prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to war; race; power.]
* Parker, Alan. "Gale Force: My Personal Journey to a Death Row Drama." ''Film Journal International'', 106:2 (2003 Feb), p. 12, 30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; in Parker, Alan (1944-): The Life of David Gale (2003); interview.]

'''1999'''
*Neubert, Ingo. "Sichtweisen des Fremden: Der amerikanische Dokumentarfilm und das Lernziel interkultureller Kompetenz: Dargestellt an der Direct-Cinema-Produktion The Chair zur Situation der Todesstrafe in den USA." ''Anglistik und Englischunterricht'', 62 (1999), pp. 407-30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; documentary film; treatment of capital punishment; in Drew, Robert L. (1924-): The Chair (1962).]
*Prédal, René. "The Player ou la mort du scénariste," pp. 127-47. Estève, Michel (ed. and introd.). ''Robert Altman.'' Paris, France: Minard, 1999. 209 pp. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; intertextuality; plot; relationship to Hollywood; in screenplay; for film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]
* Stoekl, Allan. "Execution and the Human." ''Intertexts'', 3:1 (1999 Spring), pp. 3-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Dick, Philip K. (1928-1982): Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968); novel; treatment of capital punishment; murder; human condition; in Scott, Ridley (1938-): Blade Runner (1982) as film adaptation compared to Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804): Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre.]

'''1998'''
*Lauritzen, Paul. "The Knowing Heart: Moral Argument and the Appeal to Experience". ''Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal'', 81:1-2 (1998 Spring-Summer), pp. 213-34. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to morality; experience.]

'''1997'''
* Guest, David. ''Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment.'' Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1997. xx, 179 pp. (Book) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; novel; treatment of capital punishment.]
*Nayman, Ira. "The Adaptable Altman." ''Creative Screenwriting,'' 4:3 (1997 Fall), pp. 84-96. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959): The Long Goodbye (1954); novel; and Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); Carver, Raymond (1936-1988); role of film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]

'''1994'''
*Danziger, Marie. "Basic Instinct: Grappling for Post-Modern Mind Control." ''Literature/Film Quarterly,'' 22:1 (1994), pp. 7-10. [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of power; in Verhoeven, Paul (1938-): Basic Instinct (1992); Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992)]
*Pilipp, Frank. "Satirizing Hollywood: The Self-Referentiality of Robert Altman's The Player: Co-Sponsored by the Virginia Humanities Conf. and the Virginia Center for Media and Culture," pp. 80-84. Schwartz, Joel (introd.). ''Proceedings of the Conference on Film and American Culture.'' Williamsburg: Roy R. Charles Center, College of William and Mary, 1994. 111 pp.

'''1992'''
*Richolson, Janice. "The Player: An Interview with Robert Altman." ''Cineaste: America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema,''' 19:2-3 (1992), p. 61.

=== Further reading (available at the library) ===

* Amnesty International. ''Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1989.

* Bedau, Hugo A. [Hrsg.] ''Capital punishment in the United States.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1976. ISBN 0-404-10325-1

* Martschukat, Jürgen. ''Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Nordamerika: von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart.'' 1. Ed. München: Beck, 2002. ISBN 3-406-47611-2 (Pb.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition.'' New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001. (not available at the library)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Crime and punishment: perspectives from the humanities.'' Vol. 37. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005. ISBN 0-7623-1245-9 (hbk.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Punishment politics and culture.'' Vol. 30. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004. ISBN 0-7623-1072-3

* Schwed, Roger E. ''Abolition and capital punishment: the United States' judicial, political, and moral barometer.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1983. ISBN 0-404-61623-2

====Fiction (additional) ====

* John Grisham, ''The Chamber''. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
* Victor Hugo, ''The Last Day of a Condemned Man'' [1829]. London: Hesperus Press Ltd., 2002.

=== Links ===
* [http://www.film.com/ www.film.com] Movie Trailers and Times, Reviews and Previews, Celebreties, TV, DVD etc.
* [http://elokuvantaju.uiah.fi/2001/english/study_material/study_material.jsp Cinemasense] Study material on cinematic techniques, including a word search for cinematic terms, which are explained and illustrated by film stills.
* [http://www.nitpickers.com/ nitpickers.com] Movie mistakes, movie errors, movie reviews.
* [http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms1.html Cinematic Terms - A Film-Making Glossary] Study material on cinematic terms explained and illustrated by examples.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States Capital punishment in the United States] - en.wikipedia.org
* [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ deathpenaltyinfo.org] Including a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=132&scid=17 List of Articles] and a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=130&scid=20 List of Books] on the Death Penalty.
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=main&menu=1 deathpenalty.org] "The Death Penalty Focus", an organization against the Death Penalty founded in 1988.
* [http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/states/maps/contents.htm deathpenaltycurriculum.org/states/maps] Interactive U.S. maps on the Death Penalty, including methods of execution, homicides and use of the death penalty, and execution on death row inmates (all by state).
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/CurriculumFeb.2006.pdf deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/curriculum] A pdf file showing suggested lesson plans for teachers. Including case studies, material on discussions, exams and essays, history of the Death Penalty, laws, international views and a suggested general reading list.
* Jonsson, Patrick. "Is self-defence law vigilante justice?". The Christian Science Monitor Feb. 24 2003 <http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0224/p02s01-usju.html>
* Guarnera, Daniel. "Hard to Kill: Why Can’t the U.S. Find a Suitable Execution Method?". International Review Jan. 4 2007 <http://www.internationalistreview.com/article.php?id=52>
* [http://watchthesimpsonsonline.com/movie/68-The_Simpsons_1321_The_Frying_Game.html The Simpsons 13x21 The Frying Game] Fun Stuff: An episode of "The Simpsons" showing Homer and Marge being accused of murder and sentenced to death, but before Homer's execution on the electric chair, it is revealed that they are actually in a TV-Show called "Frame Up". The episode 'criticises' (in the Simpsons manner) the Realtity Show that presents the Death Penalty as a show for a TV audience. In addition, there is a short reference to "Dead Man Walking" and "The Green Mile".

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Mastermodul]]
[[Category:Capital Punishment]]

2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty

2008-05-28T07:56:01Z

Drea: /* Films in which the death penalty plays a major role */

2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty

2008-05-15T16:57:12Z

Drea: /* • 16.05.2008: The legal system on trial */

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(Option - see my letter on the [[2008_MM_Present_US-Cinema_and_the_Death_Penalty#.E2.80.A2_16.05.2008:_The_legal_system_on_trial|next session]] for details.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale ''The Life of David Gale''] (2003),

'''Thursday, May 15, 20.45, my place, Tannenkampstr. 12'''

(you supply drink, I'll supply food), --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:24, 14 May 2008 (CEST)
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* Fr 14 - 16
* A10 1-121a
* [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
*[[Mastermodul]] Klausurvorbereitend: American Studies

The implementation of the death penalty is one of the major cultural differences between the US and Europe today. A number of movies have over the past two decades dealt with, if not effectively fuelled, the public controversy about capital punishment. The seminar will analyse and discuss some of these films against the background of the present debate and in a comparison with movies in which vigilante or self-administered justice and poetic justice create a form of capital punishment - more or less provocatively - beyond the reach of the public debate.

==• 11.04.2008: Introduction==
Discussion of the seminar plan and modes of participation.

==• 18.04.2008: Emotional imbalances: ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
*Dead Man Walking (1995)
Plot line, emotional balance, sympathies and how they are created, political messages.

==• 25.04.2008: The reception of ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
'''Wednesday, 23, 2008, 20:45''' my place, Tannenkampstr. 12: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ein kurzer Film über das Töten (Poland 1988) [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_kurzer_Film_%C3%BCber_das_T%C3%B6ten German wikipedia]

'''Course preparation'''

''Dead Man Walking'' (1995) as an influential film - debates it managed to raise, debates which just joined the ongoing debate. We need a presentation on the reception history of the film (worth an ensuing seminar paper).

We will have three short presentations on the death penalty focussing on its more ore less "humane" modalities
*Antje + Marie Katrin: A historical perspective. Background: Michel Foucault ''Discipline and Punish'' (1975). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish wikipedia] on the subject and read the first pages of the book which should be available in the library (you may refer to the German translation ''Überwachen und Strafen''). Another good book on the subject is Cesare Beccaria's (1738-1794) ''Of Crimes and Punishments'', available on the web in English: [http://www.constitution.org/cb/crim_pun.htm ''Of Crimes and Punishments'' (1764)].
*Philipp promised to take a look at the present US-debate - a good starting point is again [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States wikipedia] where you will find a chapter on methods used in the US.
*Jochen: will take a look at the general debate of humane executions. A good starting point are the links you get if you google Michael Portillo on the subject [http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22Michael+Portillo%22+%22humane+execution%22&btnG=Search]

All others are requested to take a look at the reception of the film and to feed their information into this page: [[Tim Robbins (dir.), Dead Man Walking (1995 film)|Dead Man Walking (USA 1995)]]. Give your link and a summary of your result. We should get an idea of the debate the film was able to produce to then compare this debate with the debate we had in class.

==• 02.05.2008: Truth and fiction==
* ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)
* ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story'' (2004)
Both films dealt with actual cases. Was this link to reality important? How was it used in the film and in the ensuing debate?

Some Links:

*http://www.tookie.com/tookie_fact_sheet_10.18.05.pdf
*http://da.co.la.ca.us/pdf/swilliams.pdf
*http://www.savetookie.org/ // http://www.tookie.com/
*Snoop Dogg at San Quentin Prison speaking on Tookie http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=qASQBKwngsE&feature=related
::--[[User:Sonja|Sonja Büsing]] 13:30, 02.05.2008

==• 09.05.2008: The dark side==
*''Monster’s Ball'' (2001)
*''Identity'' (2003)
*''The Green Mile'' (1999)
The capital punishment seems to have a dark side - how is this dark side connected with the general appeal of the death penalty?

==• 16.05.2008: The legal system on trial==
*''A Time to Kill'' (1996)
*''Last Dance'' (1996)

A number of films focuses on loop holes of the American legal system - a potentially problematic issue we should connect with the ''Dirty Harry'' (with their potentially straight solutions) later on

----

'''second thoughts'''

Dear Participants of my Seminar on Capital Punishment in US Movies,

I still have not quite made up my mind about how we should proceed. I wanted to see a larger number of these films to get an idea of the "genre" - if one can speak of such a genre.

...and I think one can. People have ideas about what a movie of "this kind" should include. The advertising material for ''Monster's Ball'' proves the existence of the genre by denying that this film fits into it. ''Last Dance'' on the other hand blatantly exploits the genre conventions (of which I'd like to have the clearer picture) - at times ''Last Dance'' is almost a copy of ''Dead Man Walking'' though with reversed roles.

*Option one: We take a look into ''Last Dance'' - the debate might be flat at the moment, it might circle around ''Dead Man Walking'' as the movie with which one will compare the film.
*Option two: We take another look at ''Green Mile'' - I had a problem with the video projector last time and would make sure that we won't have the same problem again. Contra-indication here: It might be difficult to get an interesting discussion, since I did not plan two sessions with distinct topics before hand. I still have my own questions - yet I realised it is difficult to give them momentum: I am intrigued about this kind of magic realism. It makes me feel uneasy. I have spent some thoughts on this uneasiness over the weekend and realised it is a general problem I have with materials which want to be interpreted. It is the role of the intended interpretation per se which makes me ask for a cultural theory of such materials and their potentials (a difficult topic).
*Option three: We change the plan an move on to ''David Gale'' for next session. As you know I did not like the film - wondering whether it does not blatantly discredit the movement of human rights activists opposing capital punishment. I would offer an option to watch the movie at my place tomorrow, Thursday, 20.45 pm.

The reshuffling of the schedule could give us a chance to directly move on to Robert Altman's film and to use the questions Altman asks for the more interesting debate of ''Last Dance'' and ''True Crime'' in the ensuing sessions.

I am slightly in favour of option three - need, however, your consent to prepare ''David Gale'' for Friday.

I am also still waiting for the clearer picture of your personal plans of seminar-work. The seminar will not become interesting if you do not turn it into the platform on which you take your first steps into the works you intend to write. I want you to use the seminar to test observations and ideas and to get feedback from your colleagues,

best, --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:07, 14 May 2008 (CEST)

::PS ''Last Dance'' would (if we took option three) become part of three sessions circling around Altman's film. ''A Time to Kill'' would move into the self administered justice section. ''True Crime'' and ''Dirty Harry'' would move closer together.

---

* I'd prefer option three just because I didn't like the "Green Mile" too much. Heard quite a lot about "David Gale" and would like to see it. (Marie-Ann Mowka)
* ''David Gale'' would be okay, although I'd like to further discuss ''The Green Mile'', as well. However, maybe we should discuss the further outline of the seminar in the next session, which would give us the possibility to shift the postion of some films... --[[User:Bastian Martens|Bastian Martens]] 11:21, 15 May 2008 (CEST)

I think we should catch up with the "Green Mile" material we were up to watch last week and then continue with "David Gale". (Raimund Teske)
* I agree with Raimund

==• 30.05.2008: Human rights activists on trial==
*''The Life of David Gale'' (2003)
''The Life of David Gale'' (2003) is probably the worst movie on the list - worth examining as a questionable item.

==• 06.06.2008: Hollywood on trial==
*''The Player'' (1992)
Invites a reevaluation of the films we have seen so far.

==• 13.06.2008: The separation of powers suspended: Or the cop as judge and executioner==
*''Dirty Harry'' (1971-1888)
We should take a look at the development and compare Eastwood's role here with his role in ''True Crime'' (1999)

==• 20.06.2008: The separation of powers suspended: Or the citizen as judge and executioner==
* ''A Time to Kill'' (1996)
* ''The Brave One'' (2007)
* ''Death Sentence'' (2007)
''A Time to Kill'' (1996) was already on the agenda in session 6 (May 16). The two new movies are recent productions able to reflect the public opinion on a much broader field of issues from gun control to the question of state authority. (A special question: does it matter that Jodie Foster acted in Taxi Driver before?

==• 27.06.2008: Poetic justice==
I leave this session open. There are numerous movies in which dangerous criminals challenge the police or the public - and have to die eventually. We have seen that the state can do the bloody job in the end, we have seen that individuals can take things into their own hands - a third option should be touched with all those films in which the criminal eventually kills himself, in an act of suicide or accidentally - punished by his own perverse drive or a higher justice (if we want to risk that interpretation).

==• 04.07.2008: Teaching the topic==
The session might take some of its inspiration from http://www.deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/CurriculumFeb.2006.pdf - a proposal of how the topic could be taught at school.

==• 11.07.2008: Final session==
Look back on the seminar and my feedback on the seminar evaluation.

===Topics===
====Background information====
* The history of the death penalty and Foucault's work.
* The legal status in the US
* Pro and contra: interest groups
* The question of method - from electrocution to the lethal injection - what is the function of the debate?
* Religion and the death penalty

====Seminar papers====
Be creative! And open a special section on the [[Talk:2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty|Discussion page]] to give outlines of topics you are interested in.

=== Films in which the death penalty plays a major role ===

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972554/ ''Execution''] (2007) directed by Steven Scaffidi. In the year 1995 two filmmakers gained access to death row and filmed the final seven days of a man before he got executed. The Warden confiscated the film footage, but ten years later the filmmakers get the film footage back.

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption:_The_Stan_Tookie_Williams_Story ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story''] (2004) (TV) Film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and starring Jamie Foxx. The film is based on the true story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the "Crips", a street gang in L.A. He was accused of murder, prisoned and executed. While in Death Row, he started writing children's novels, which earned him Nobel Peace Prize nominations. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388367/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_%28film%29 ''Identity''] (2003) directed by James Mangold. Is it possible/legal to sentence someone to death who's got "multiple personality"? Which of these "personalities" is sentenced to death? [http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/identity/index.html www.sonypictures.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt309698/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale ''The Life of David Gale''] (2003) directed by Alan Parker, starring Kate Winslet and Kevin Spacey. An acitivist against the death penalty is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sentenced to death. While he is in prison, he tells his story to a reporter in flashbacks. http://www.thelifeofdavidgale.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_%28film%29 ''Monster''] (2003) directed by Patty Jenkins Adapting the true story of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/ IMDb] not ordered for library

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%27s_ball ''Monster’s Ball''] (2001) directed by Marc Foster, starring Oscar-Winner Halle Barry and Billy Bob Thornton. Thornton plays a racist prison guard who falls in love with the wife of the last prisoner he executed and reexamines his own attitudes. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285742/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_%28film%29 ''The Green Mile''] (1999) directed by Frank Darabont, starring Tom Hanks and Micheal Clarke Duncan. The lives of prison guards leading the condemned prisoners to their executions, one of them went to prison on false accusation. http://thegreenmile.warnerbros.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Crime_%281999_film%29 ''True Crime''] (1999) directed by Clint Eastwood, based on Andrew Klavan's novel, who also wrote the screenplay. Frank Beachum was sentenced to death but claims to be innocent. Steve Everett played by Eastwood is a journalist who attempts to find the truth about the murder. [http://www.truecrimethemovie.com/ www.truecrimethemovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139668/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Dance_%28film%29 ''Last Dance''] (1996) directed by Bruce Beresford. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116827/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_%28film%29 ''Dead Man Walking''] (1995) directed by Tim Robbins, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112818/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player ''The Player''] (1992) directed by Robert Altman using a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/ IMDb]

=== Films in which self-administered justice becomes a major topic ===

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Sentence_%28film%29 ''Death Sentence''] (2007) A drama directed by James Wan. With Kevin Bacon, John Goodman and Kelly Preston. An executive witnesses a crime that changes his life. He wants to protect his family and seeks revenge. [http://www.deathsentencemovie.com/ www.deathsentencemovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804461/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_One_%282007_film%29 ''The Brave One''] (2007) directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster. A mayhem victim avenges the death of her husband under the protection of the police officer who is supposed to solve the case. [http://thebraveone.warnerbros.com/ www.thebraveone.warnerbros.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476964/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punisher_%282004_film%29 ''The Punisher''] (2004) directed by Jonathan Hensleigh. After his wife and family are killed, Frank Castle takes it upon himself to distribute punishment to those responsible for the vendetta. [http://www.punishermovie.com/ www.punishermovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330793/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_(film) ''Double Jeopardy''] (1999) directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones. An innocent woman is sentenced to death for the murder of her husband. While in prison, she discovers that her husband is still alive and that he and her best friend betrayed her. After her release on probation, she wants to take revenge; based on the American law that a person cannot be re-accused of the same crime. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150377/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(film) ''A Time to Kill''] (1996) based on the novel written by John Grisham. A father takes revenge on the rapists of his daughter. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry ''Dirty Harry''] (1971) with its sequels which handle the topic of vigilante justice in variations till [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Pool ''The Dead Pool''] (1988).

=== Films in which the accidental death of the criminal reestablishes a higher justice ===

=== Documentary films (German/additional/available at the university library) ===

* Dubois, Jean-Paul. ''Henker erzählen: Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankreich, 2004. Fernsehmitschnitt Sw: USA. Fernsehmitschnitt: WDR, 22.10.2004. (VHS, farb., 50 Min.) (Dokumentation über Henker in den USA, die sich kritisch mit ihrer Arbeit und der Todesstrafe auseinandersetzen)

* Kessel, Julie von. ''The Innocence Project.'' Deutschland, 2002. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 03.12.2002. (VHS, farb., 20 Min.) (Bericht über ein DNA-Projekt der New Yorker Columbia University, das sich mit Schuld oder Unschuld zum Tode Verurteilter beschäftigt.)

* Steinberg, Klaus; Bock, Astrid. ''Leben mit der Hinrichtung: Begegnungen im Todestrakt.'' Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ZDF (37 Grad), 12.08.1997. (VHS, farb., 30 Min.') (Bericht über zum Tode verurteilte Häftlinge in den USA.)

* Walwin, Kent; Trombley, Stephen [Reg.]. ''L 'état meurtrier'' = Der Staat als Mörder. Deutschland/Frankreich, 1996. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 21.3.1996, 20,45 Uhr. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., farb., 75 Min.) (Auseinandersetzung um die Todesstrafe vom Ursprung bis zur heutigen Praxis in den USA)

* Hoewijk, Jaap van. ''Procedure 769: a hanging.'' Niederlande, 1995. Fernsehmitschnitt: West 3, 15.4.1996, 23,00 Uhr. (VHS, farb., 80 Min) (Der Film geht der Frage nach, warum Angehörige des Täters und der Opfer von Robert A. Harris dessen Hinrichtung beiwohnten.)

* Leacock, Richard; Pennebaker, Don Alan. ''The chair'' = Der Stuhl. Monospur dt., Stereospur engl. USA, 1963. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 18.10.1996. (VHS, s/w, 75 Min.) (Documentary about the death sentence.)

* Reinhold, Frank. ''Take care'' = Gib auf dich acht! Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 10.6.1997. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., Stereospur franz., farb., 60 Min.) (Die Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem in den USA zum Tode verurteilten Schwarzen Arthur Lee Williams und einer Deutschen von Amnesty International.)

===Literature===
MLA on "Death Penalty", "Capital Punishment", "Execution", "The Player"

'''2007'''
*Tolkin, Michael. "[Fiction into Film.]" ''BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, & Culture'', 14:2 (2007 June-Aug), pp. 36-37. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-2006).]

'''2006'''
* O'Shea, Kathleen. Killing the Killers: Women on Death Row in the United States. pp. 67-82. Burfoot, Annette (ed. and introd.) Lord, Susan (ed. and introd.). ''Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence'' Cultural Studies Series. 6. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2006. xxii, 328 pp. (Book article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; television; in United States; 1998; treatment of women murderers; religious conversion; relationship to capital punishment; social conventions; of femininity; objectification.]

'''2005'''
* George, Diana and Shoos, Diane. "Deflecting the Political in the Visual Images of Execution and the Death Penalty Debate". ''College English'', 67:6 (2005 July), pp. 587-609. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; compared to photographs; of lynching; relationship to witness; voyeurism.]
*Poirot, Valérie. Cinéma et engagement: Représentations de la peine de mort et images d'exécution dans les productions américaines et françaises. ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 66:3 (2005 Sept), p. 798. (Dissertation abstract) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; in France; United States; 1970-1999; treatment of execution.]
* Reinelt, Janelle. "The Ambivalence of Catholic Compassion". ''Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism'', 20:1 (2005 Fall), pp. 103-12. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to Christianity.]
*Schuyler, Michael T. "'Traffic Was a Bitch': Gender, Race and Spectatorship in Robert Altman's The Player." ''Journal of Narrative Theory'', 35:2 (2005 Summer), pp. 218-47. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of women; blacks; relationship to spectator; in Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992).]

'''2003'''
* Horeck, Tanya. "From Documentary to Drama: Capturing Aileen Wuornos." ''Screen'', 48:2 (2007 Summer), pp. 141-59. [Treatment of Wuornos, Aileen (1956-2002); women murderers; capital punishment; in Broomfield, Nicholas (1948-) and Churchill, Joan: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) compared to Jenkins, Patty (1971-): Monster (2003).] see: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos:_The_Selling_of_a_Serial_Killer en.wikipedia.org]
*Goldsmith, David F. "Monster." ''Creative Screenwriting'', 11:1 (2004 Jan-Feb), pp. 30-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; crime film; treatment of prostitute; sexual abuse; relationship to revenge; capital punishment; in Jenkins, Patty: Monster (2003).]
* Meranze, Michael. "Michel Foucault, the Death Penalty and the Crisis of Historical Understanding." ''Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques,'' 29:2 (2003 Summer), pp. 191-209. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: French literature; 1900-1999; Foucault, Michel (1926-1984): L'Histoire de la sexualité (1976); History of Sexuality: "Il faut défendre la société"; prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to war; race; power.]
* Parker, Alan. "Gale Force: My Personal Journey to a Death Row Drama." ''Film Journal International'', 106:2 (2003 Feb), p. 12, 30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; in Parker, Alan (1944-): The Life of David Gale (2003); interview.]

'''1999'''
*Neubert, Ingo. "Sichtweisen des Fremden: Der amerikanische Dokumentarfilm und das Lernziel interkultureller Kompetenz: Dargestellt an der Direct-Cinema-Produktion The Chair zur Situation der Todesstrafe in den USA." ''Anglistik und Englischunterricht'', 62 (1999), pp. 407-30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; documentary film; treatment of capital punishment; in Drew, Robert L. (1924-): The Chair (1962).]
*Prédal, René. "The Player ou la mort du scénariste," pp. 127-47. Estève, Michel (ed. and introd.). ''Robert Altman.'' Paris, France: Minard, 1999. 209 pp. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; intertextuality; plot; relationship to Hollywood; in screenplay; for film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]
* Stoekl, Allan. "Execution and the Human." ''Intertexts'', 3:1 (1999 Spring), pp. 3-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Dick, Philip K. (1928-1982): Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968); novel; treatment of capital punishment; murder; human condition; in Scott, Ridley (1938-): Blade Runner (1982) as film adaptation compared to Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804): Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre.]

'''1998'''
*Lauritzen, Paul. "The Knowing Heart: Moral Argument and the Appeal to Experience". ''Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal'', 81:1-2 (1998 Spring-Summer), pp. 213-34. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to morality; experience.]

'''1997'''
* Guest, David. ''Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment.'' Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1997. xx, 179 pp. (Book) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; novel; treatment of capital punishment.]
*Nayman, Ira. "The Adaptable Altman." ''Creative Screenwriting,'' 4:3 (1997 Fall), pp. 84-96. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959): The Long Goodbye (1954); novel; and Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); Carver, Raymond (1936-1988); role of film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]

'''1994'''
*Danziger, Marie. "Basic Instinct: Grappling for Post-Modern Mind Control." ''Literature/Film Quarterly,'' 22:1 (1994), pp. 7-10. [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of power; in Verhoeven, Paul (1938-): Basic Instinct (1992); Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992)]
*Pilipp, Frank. "Satirizing Hollywood: The Self-Referentiality of Robert Altman's The Player: Co-Sponsored by the Virginia Humanities Conf. and the Virginia Center for Media and Culture," pp. 80-84. Schwartz, Joel (introd.). ''Proceedings of the Conference on Film and American Culture.'' Williamsburg: Roy R. Charles Center, College of William and Mary, 1994. 111 pp.

'''1992'''
*Richolson, Janice. "The Player: An Interview with Robert Altman." ''Cineaste: America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema,''' 19:2-3 (1992), p. 61.

=== Further reading (available at the library) ===

* Amnesty International. ''Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1989.

* Bedau, Hugo A. [Hrsg.] ''Capital punishment in the United States.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1976. ISBN 0-404-10325-1

* Martschukat, Jürgen. ''Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Nordamerika: von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart.'' 1. Ed. München: Beck, 2002. ISBN 3-406-47611-2 (Pb.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition.'' New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001. (not available at the library)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Crime and punishment: perspectives from the humanities.'' Vol. 37. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005. ISBN 0-7623-1245-9 (hbk.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Punishment politics and culture.'' Vol. 30. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004. ISBN 0-7623-1072-3

* Schwed, Roger E. ''Abolition and capital punishment: the United States' judicial, political, and moral barometer.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1983. ISBN 0-404-61623-2

====Fiction (additional) ====

* John Grisham, ''The Chamber''. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
* Victor Hugo, ''The Last Day of a Condemned Man'' [1829]. London: Hesperus Press Ltd., 2002.

=== Links ===
* [http://www.film.com/ www.film.com] Movie Trailers and Times, Reviews and Previews, Celebreties, TV, DVD etc.
* [http://elokuvantaju.uiah.fi/2001/english/study_material/study_material.jsp Cinemasense] Study material on cinematic techniques, including a word search for cinematic terms, which are explained and illustrated by film stills.
* [http://www.nitpickers.com/ nitpickers.com] Movie mistakes, movie errors, movie reviews.
* [http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms1.html Cinematic Terms - A Film-Making Glossary] Study material on cinematic terms explained and illustrated by examples.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States Capital punishment in the United States] - en.wikipedia.org
* [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ deathpenaltyinfo.org] Including a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=132&scid=17 List of Articles] and a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=130&scid=20 List of Books] on the Death Penalty.
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=main&menu=1 deathpenalty.org] "The Death Penalty Focus", an organization against the Death Penalty founded in 1988.
* [http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/states/maps/contents.htm deathpenaltycurriculum.org/states/maps] Interactive U.S. maps on the Death Penalty, including methods of execution, homicides and use of the death penalty, and execution on death row inmates (all by state).
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/CurriculumFeb.2006.pdf deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/curriculum] A pdf file showing suggested lesson plans for teachers. Including case studies, material on discussions, exams and essays, history of the Death Penalty, laws, international views and a suggested general reading list.
* Jonsson, Patrick. "Is self-defence law vigilante justice?". The Christian Science Monitor Feb. 24 2003 <http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0224/p02s01-usju.html>
* Guarnera, Daniel. "Hard to Kill: Why Can’t the U.S. Find a Suitable Execution Method?". International Review Jan. 4 2007 <http://www.internationalistreview.com/article.php?id=52>

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Mastermodul]]

2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty

2008-05-15T16:56:23Z

Drea: /* • 30.05.2008: Human rights activists on trial */

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(Option - see my letter on the [[2008_MM_Present_US-Cinema_and_the_Death_Penalty#.E2.80.A2_16.05.2008:_The_legal_system_on_trial|next session]] for details.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale ''The Life of David Gale''] (2003),

'''Thursday, May 15, 20.45, my place, Tannenkampstr. 12'''

(you supply drink, I'll supply food), --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:24, 14 May 2008 (CEST)
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* Fr 14 - 16
* A10 1-121a
* [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
*[[Mastermodul]] Klausurvorbereitend: American Studies

The implementation of the death penalty is one of the major cultural differences between the US and Europe today. A number of movies have over the past two decades dealt with, if not effectively fuelled, the public controversy about capital punishment. The seminar will analyse and discuss some of these films against the background of the present debate and in a comparison with movies in which vigilante or self-administered justice and poetic justice create a form of capital punishment - more or less provocatively - beyond the reach of the public debate.

==• 11.04.2008: Introduction==
Discussion of the seminar plan and modes of participation.

==• 18.04.2008: Emotional imbalances: ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
*Dead Man Walking (1995)
Plot line, emotional balance, sympathies and how they are created, political messages.

==• 25.04.2008: The reception of ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
'''Wednesday, 23, 2008, 20:45''' my place, Tannenkampstr. 12: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ein kurzer Film über das Töten (Poland 1988) [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_kurzer_Film_%C3%BCber_das_T%C3%B6ten German wikipedia]

'''Course preparation'''

''Dead Man Walking'' (1995) as an influential film - debates it managed to raise, debates which just joined the ongoing debate. We need a presentation on the reception history of the film (worth an ensuing seminar paper).

We will have three short presentations on the death penalty focussing on its more ore less "humane" modalities
*Antje + Marie Katrin: A historical perspective. Background: Michel Foucault ''Discipline and Punish'' (1975). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish wikipedia] on the subject and read the first pages of the book which should be available in the library (you may refer to the German translation ''Überwachen und Strafen''). Another good book on the subject is Cesare Beccaria's (1738-1794) ''Of Crimes and Punishments'', available on the web in English: [http://www.constitution.org/cb/crim_pun.htm ''Of Crimes and Punishments'' (1764)].
*Philipp promised to take a look at the present US-debate - a good starting point is again [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States wikipedia] where you will find a chapter on methods used in the US.
*Jochen: will take a look at the general debate of humane executions. A good starting point are the links you get if you google Michael Portillo on the subject [http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22Michael+Portillo%22+%22humane+execution%22&btnG=Search]

All others are requested to take a look at the reception of the film and to feed their information into this page: [[Tim Robbins (dir.), Dead Man Walking (1995 film)|Dead Man Walking (USA 1995)]]. Give your link and a summary of your result. We should get an idea of the debate the film was able to produce to then compare this debate with the debate we had in class.

==• 02.05.2008: Truth and fiction==
* ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)
* ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story'' (2004)
Both films dealt with actual cases. Was this link to reality important? How was it used in the film and in the ensuing debate?

Some Links:

*http://www.tookie.com/tookie_fact_sheet_10.18.05.pdf
*http://da.co.la.ca.us/pdf/swilliams.pdf
*http://www.savetookie.org/ // http://www.tookie.com/
*Snoop Dogg at San Quentin Prison speaking on Tookie http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=qASQBKwngsE&feature=related
::--[[User:Sonja|Sonja Büsing]] 13:30, 02.05.2008

==• 09.05.2008: The dark side==
*''Monster’s Ball'' (2001)
*''Identity'' (2003)
*''The Green Mile'' (1999)
The capital punishment seems to have a dark side - how is this dark side connected with the general appeal of the death penalty?

==• 16.05.2008: The legal system on trial==
*''A Time to Kill'' (1996)
*''Last Dance'' (1996)

A number of films focuses on loop holes of the American legal system - a potentially problematic issue we should connect with the ''Dirty Harry'' (with their potentially straight solutions) later on

----

'''second thoughts'''

Dear Participants of my Seminar on Capital Punishment in US Movies,

I still have not quite made up my mind about how we should proceed. I wanted to see a larger number of these films to get an idea of the "genre" - if one can speak of such a genre.

...and I think one can. People have ideas about what a movie of "this kind" should include. The advertising material for ''Monster's Ball'' proves the existence of the genre by denying that this film fits into it. ''Last Dance'' on the other hand blatantly exploits the genre conventions (of which I'd like to have the clearer picture) - at times ''Last Dance'' is almost a copy of ''Dead Man Walking'' though with reversed roles.

*Option one: We take a look into ''Last Dance'' - the debate might be flat at the moment, it might circle around ''Dead Man Walking'' as the movie with which one will compare the film.
*Option two: We take another look at ''Green Mile'' - I had a problem with the video projector last time and would make sure that we won't have the same problem again. Contra-indication here: It might be difficult to get an interesting discussion, since I did not plan two sessions with distinct topics before hand. I still have my own questions - yet I realised it is difficult to give them momentum: I am intrigued about this kind of magic realism. It makes me feel uneasy. I have spent some thoughts on this uneasiness over the weekend and realised it is a general problem I have with materials which want to be interpreted. It is the role of the intended interpretation per se which makes me ask for a cultural theory of such materials and their potentials (a difficult topic).
*Option three: We change the plan an move on to ''David Gale'' for next session. As you know I did not like the film - wondering whether it does not blatantly discredit the movement of human rights activists opposing capital punishment. I would offer an option to watch the movie at my place tomorrow, Thursday, 20.45 pm.

The reshuffling of the schedule could give us a chance to directly move on to Robert Altman's film and to use the questions Altman asks for the more interesting debate of ''Last Dance'' and ''True Crime'' in the ensuing sessions.

I am slightly in favour of option three - need, however, your consent to prepare ''David Gale'' for Friday.

I am also still waiting for the clearer picture of your personal plans of seminar-work. The seminar will not become interesting if you do not turn it into the platform on which you take your first steps into the works you intend to write. I want you to use the seminar to test observations and ideas and to get feedback from your colleagues,

best, --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:07, 14 May 2008 (CEST)

::PS ''Last Dance'' would (if we took option three) become part of three sessions circling around Altman's film. ''A Time to Kill'' would move into the self administered justice section. ''True Crime'' and ''Dirty Harry'' would move closer together.

---

* I'd prefer option three just because I didn't like the "Green Mile" too much. Heard quite a lot about "David Gale" and would like to see it. (Marie-Ann Mowka)
* ''David Gale'' would be okay, although I'd like to further discuss ''The Green Mile'', as well. However, maybe we should discuss the further outline of the seminar in the next session, which would give us the possibility to shift the postion of some films... --[[User:Bastian Martens|Bastian Martens]] 11:21, 15 May 2008 (CEST)

I think we should catch up with the "Green Mile" material we were up to watch last week and then continue with "David Gale". (Raimund Teske)

==• 30.05.2008: Human rights activists on trial==
*''The Life of David Gale'' (2003)
''The Life of David Gale'' (2003) is probably the worst movie on the list - worth examining as a questionable item.

==• 06.06.2008: Hollywood on trial==
*''The Player'' (1992)
Invites a reevaluation of the films we have seen so far.

==• 13.06.2008: The separation of powers suspended: Or the cop as judge and executioner==
*''Dirty Harry'' (1971-1888)
We should take a look at the development and compare Eastwood's role here with his role in ''True Crime'' (1999)

==• 20.06.2008: The separation of powers suspended: Or the citizen as judge and executioner==
* ''A Time to Kill'' (1996)
* ''The Brave One'' (2007)
* ''Death Sentence'' (2007)
''A Time to Kill'' (1996) was already on the agenda in session 6 (May 16). The two new movies are recent productions able to reflect the public opinion on a much broader field of issues from gun control to the question of state authority. (A special question: does it matter that Jodie Foster acted in Taxi Driver before?

==• 27.06.2008: Poetic justice==
I leave this session open. There are numerous movies in which dangerous criminals challenge the police or the public - and have to die eventually. We have seen that the state can do the bloody job in the end, we have seen that individuals can take things into their own hands - a third option should be touched with all those films in which the criminal eventually kills himself, in an act of suicide or accidentally - punished by his own perverse drive or a higher justice (if we want to risk that interpretation).

==• 04.07.2008: Teaching the topic==
The session might take some of its inspiration from http://www.deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/CurriculumFeb.2006.pdf - a proposal of how the topic could be taught at school.

==• 11.07.2008: Final session==
Look back on the seminar and my feedback on the seminar evaluation.

===Topics===
====Background information====
* The history of the death penalty and Foucault's work.
* The legal status in the US
* Pro and contra: interest groups
* The question of method - from electrocution to the lethal injection - what is the function of the debate?
* Religion and the death penalty

====Seminar papers====
Be creative! And open a special section on the [[Talk:2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty|Discussion page]] to give outlines of topics you are interested in.

=== Films in which the death penalty plays a major role ===

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972554/ ''Execution''] (2007) directed by Steven Scaffidi. In the year 1995 two filmmakers gained access to death row and filmed the final seven days of a man before he got executed. The Warden confiscated the film footage, but ten years later the filmmakers get the film footage back.

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption:_The_Stan_Tookie_Williams_Story ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story''] (2004) (TV) Film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and starring Jamie Foxx. The film is based on the true story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the "Crips", a street gang in L.A. He was accused of murder, prisoned and executed. While in Death Row, he started writing children's novels, which earned him Nobel Peace Prize nominations. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388367/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_%28film%29 ''Identity''] (2003) directed by James Mangold. Is it possible/legal to sentence someone to death who's got "multiple personality"? Which of these "personalities" is sentenced to death? [http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/identity/index.html www.sonypictures.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt309698/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale ''The Life of David Gale''] (2003) directed by Alan Parker, starring Kate Winslet and Kevin Spacey. An acitivist against the death penalty is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sentenced to death. While he is in prison, he tells his story to a reporter in flashbacks. http://www.thelifeofdavidgale.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_%28film%29 ''Monster''] (2003) directed by Patty Jenkins Adapting the true story of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/ IMDb] not ordered for library

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%27s_ball ''Monster’s Ball''] (2001) directed by Marc Foster, starring Oscar-Winner Halle Barry and Billy Bob Thornton. Thornton plays a racist prison guard who falls in love with the wife of the last prisoner he executed and reexamines his own attitudes. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285742/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_%28film%29 ''The Green Mile''] (1999) directed by Frank Darabont, starring Tom Hanks and Micheal Clarke Duncan. The lives of prison guards leading the condemned prisoners to their executions, one of them went to prison on false accusation. http://thegreenmile.warnerbros.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Crime_%281999_film%29 ''True Crime''] (1999) directed by Clint Eastwood, based on Andrew Klavan's novel, who also wrote the screenplay. Frank Beachum was sentenced to death but claims to be innocent. Steve Everett played by Eastwood is a journalist who attempts to find the truth about the murder. [http://www.truecrimethemovie.com/ www.truecrimethemovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139668/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Dance_%28film%29 ''Last Dance''] (1996) directed by Bruce Beresford. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116827/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_%28film%29 ''Dead Man Walking''] (1995) directed by Tim Robbins, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112818/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player ''The Player''] (1992) directed by Robert Altman using a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/ IMDb]

=== Films in which self-administered justice becomes a major topic ===

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Sentence_%28film%29 ''Death Sentence''] (2007) A drama directed by James Wan. With Kevin Bacon, John Goodman and Kelly Preston. An executive witnesses a crime that changes his life. He wants to protect his family and seeks revenge. [http://www.deathsentencemovie.com/ www.deathsentencemovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804461/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_One_%282007_film%29 ''The Brave One''] (2007) directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster. A mayhem victim avenges the death of her husband under the protection of the police officer who is supposed to solve the case. [http://thebraveone.warnerbros.com/ www.thebraveone.warnerbros.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476964/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punisher_%282004_film%29 ''The Punisher''] (2004) directed by Jonathan Hensleigh. After his wife and family are killed, Frank Castle takes it upon himself to distribute punishment to those responsible for the vendetta. [http://www.punishermovie.com/ www.punishermovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330793/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_(film) ''Double Jeopardy''] (1999) directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones. An innocent woman is sentenced to death for the murder of her husband. While in prison, she discovers that her husband is still alive and that he and her best friend betrayed her. After her release on probation, she wants to take revenge; based on the American law that a person cannot be re-accused of the same crime. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150377/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(film) ''A Time to Kill''] (1996) based on the novel written by John Grisham. A father takes revenge on the rapists of his daughter. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry ''Dirty Harry''] (1971) with its sequels which handle the topic of vigilante justice in variations till [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Pool ''The Dead Pool''] (1988).

=== Films in which the accidental death of the criminal reestablishes a higher justice ===

=== Documentary films (German/additional/available at the university library) ===

* Dubois, Jean-Paul. ''Henker erzählen: Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankreich, 2004. Fernsehmitschnitt Sw: USA. Fernsehmitschnitt: WDR, 22.10.2004. (VHS, farb., 50 Min.) (Dokumentation über Henker in den USA, die sich kritisch mit ihrer Arbeit und der Todesstrafe auseinandersetzen)

* Kessel, Julie von. ''The Innocence Project.'' Deutschland, 2002. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 03.12.2002. (VHS, farb., 20 Min.) (Bericht über ein DNA-Projekt der New Yorker Columbia University, das sich mit Schuld oder Unschuld zum Tode Verurteilter beschäftigt.)

* Steinberg, Klaus; Bock, Astrid. ''Leben mit der Hinrichtung: Begegnungen im Todestrakt.'' Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ZDF (37 Grad), 12.08.1997. (VHS, farb., 30 Min.') (Bericht über zum Tode verurteilte Häftlinge in den USA.)

* Walwin, Kent; Trombley, Stephen [Reg.]. ''L 'état meurtrier'' = Der Staat als Mörder. Deutschland/Frankreich, 1996. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 21.3.1996, 20,45 Uhr. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., farb., 75 Min.) (Auseinandersetzung um die Todesstrafe vom Ursprung bis zur heutigen Praxis in den USA)

* Hoewijk, Jaap van. ''Procedure 769: a hanging.'' Niederlande, 1995. Fernsehmitschnitt: West 3, 15.4.1996, 23,00 Uhr. (VHS, farb., 80 Min) (Der Film geht der Frage nach, warum Angehörige des Täters und der Opfer von Robert A. Harris dessen Hinrichtung beiwohnten.)

* Leacock, Richard; Pennebaker, Don Alan. ''The chair'' = Der Stuhl. Monospur dt., Stereospur engl. USA, 1963. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 18.10.1996. (VHS, s/w, 75 Min.) (Documentary about the death sentence.)

* Reinhold, Frank. ''Take care'' = Gib auf dich acht! Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 10.6.1997. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., Stereospur franz., farb., 60 Min.) (Die Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem in den USA zum Tode verurteilten Schwarzen Arthur Lee Williams und einer Deutschen von Amnesty International.)

===Literature===
MLA on "Death Penalty", "Capital Punishment", "Execution", "The Player"

'''2007'''
*Tolkin, Michael. "[Fiction into Film.]" ''BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, & Culture'', 14:2 (2007 June-Aug), pp. 36-37. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-2006).]

'''2006'''
* O'Shea, Kathleen. Killing the Killers: Women on Death Row in the United States. pp. 67-82. Burfoot, Annette (ed. and introd.) Lord, Susan (ed. and introd.). ''Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence'' Cultural Studies Series. 6. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2006. xxii, 328 pp. (Book article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; television; in United States; 1998; treatment of women murderers; religious conversion; relationship to capital punishment; social conventions; of femininity; objectification.]

'''2005'''
* George, Diana and Shoos, Diane. "Deflecting the Political in the Visual Images of Execution and the Death Penalty Debate". ''College English'', 67:6 (2005 July), pp. 587-609. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; compared to photographs; of lynching; relationship to witness; voyeurism.]
*Poirot, Valérie. Cinéma et engagement: Représentations de la peine de mort et images d'exécution dans les productions américaines et françaises. ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 66:3 (2005 Sept), p. 798. (Dissertation abstract) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; in France; United States; 1970-1999; treatment of execution.]
* Reinelt, Janelle. "The Ambivalence of Catholic Compassion". ''Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism'', 20:1 (2005 Fall), pp. 103-12. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to Christianity.]
*Schuyler, Michael T. "'Traffic Was a Bitch': Gender, Race and Spectatorship in Robert Altman's The Player." ''Journal of Narrative Theory'', 35:2 (2005 Summer), pp. 218-47. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of women; blacks; relationship to spectator; in Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992).]

'''2003'''
* Horeck, Tanya. "From Documentary to Drama: Capturing Aileen Wuornos." ''Screen'', 48:2 (2007 Summer), pp. 141-59. [Treatment of Wuornos, Aileen (1956-2002); women murderers; capital punishment; in Broomfield, Nicholas (1948-) and Churchill, Joan: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) compared to Jenkins, Patty (1971-): Monster (2003).] see: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos:_The_Selling_of_a_Serial_Killer en.wikipedia.org]
*Goldsmith, David F. "Monster." ''Creative Screenwriting'', 11:1 (2004 Jan-Feb), pp. 30-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; crime film; treatment of prostitute; sexual abuse; relationship to revenge; capital punishment; in Jenkins, Patty: Monster (2003).]
* Meranze, Michael. "Michel Foucault, the Death Penalty and the Crisis of Historical Understanding." ''Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques,'' 29:2 (2003 Summer), pp. 191-209. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: French literature; 1900-1999; Foucault, Michel (1926-1984): L'Histoire de la sexualité (1976); History of Sexuality: "Il faut défendre la société"; prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to war; race; power.]
* Parker, Alan. "Gale Force: My Personal Journey to a Death Row Drama." ''Film Journal International'', 106:2 (2003 Feb), p. 12, 30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; in Parker, Alan (1944-): The Life of David Gale (2003); interview.]

'''1999'''
*Neubert, Ingo. "Sichtweisen des Fremden: Der amerikanische Dokumentarfilm und das Lernziel interkultureller Kompetenz: Dargestellt an der Direct-Cinema-Produktion The Chair zur Situation der Todesstrafe in den USA." ''Anglistik und Englischunterricht'', 62 (1999), pp. 407-30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; documentary film; treatment of capital punishment; in Drew, Robert L. (1924-): The Chair (1962).]
*Prédal, René. "The Player ou la mort du scénariste," pp. 127-47. Estève, Michel (ed. and introd.). ''Robert Altman.'' Paris, France: Minard, 1999. 209 pp. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; intertextuality; plot; relationship to Hollywood; in screenplay; for film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]
* Stoekl, Allan. "Execution and the Human." ''Intertexts'', 3:1 (1999 Spring), pp. 3-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Dick, Philip K. (1928-1982): Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968); novel; treatment of capital punishment; murder; human condition; in Scott, Ridley (1938-): Blade Runner (1982) as film adaptation compared to Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804): Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre.]

'''1998'''
*Lauritzen, Paul. "The Knowing Heart: Moral Argument and the Appeal to Experience". ''Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal'', 81:1-2 (1998 Spring-Summer), pp. 213-34. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to morality; experience.]

'''1997'''
* Guest, David. ''Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment.'' Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1997. xx, 179 pp. (Book) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; novel; treatment of capital punishment.]
*Nayman, Ira. "The Adaptable Altman." ''Creative Screenwriting,'' 4:3 (1997 Fall), pp. 84-96. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959): The Long Goodbye (1954); novel; and Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); Carver, Raymond (1936-1988); role of film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]

'''1994'''
*Danziger, Marie. "Basic Instinct: Grappling for Post-Modern Mind Control." ''Literature/Film Quarterly,'' 22:1 (1994), pp. 7-10. [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of power; in Verhoeven, Paul (1938-): Basic Instinct (1992); Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992)]
*Pilipp, Frank. "Satirizing Hollywood: The Self-Referentiality of Robert Altman's The Player: Co-Sponsored by the Virginia Humanities Conf. and the Virginia Center for Media and Culture," pp. 80-84. Schwartz, Joel (introd.). ''Proceedings of the Conference on Film and American Culture.'' Williamsburg: Roy R. Charles Center, College of William and Mary, 1994. 111 pp.

'''1992'''
*Richolson, Janice. "The Player: An Interview with Robert Altman." ''Cineaste: America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema,''' 19:2-3 (1992), p. 61.

=== Further reading (available at the library) ===

* Amnesty International. ''Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1989.

* Bedau, Hugo A. [Hrsg.] ''Capital punishment in the United States.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1976. ISBN 0-404-10325-1

* Martschukat, Jürgen. ''Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Nordamerika: von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart.'' 1. Ed. München: Beck, 2002. ISBN 3-406-47611-2 (Pb.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition.'' New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001. (not available at the library)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Crime and punishment: perspectives from the humanities.'' Vol. 37. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005. ISBN 0-7623-1245-9 (hbk.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Punishment politics and culture.'' Vol. 30. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004. ISBN 0-7623-1072-3

* Schwed, Roger E. ''Abolition and capital punishment: the United States' judicial, political, and moral barometer.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1983. ISBN 0-404-61623-2

====Fiction (additional) ====

* John Grisham, ''The Chamber''. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
* Victor Hugo, ''The Last Day of a Condemned Man'' [1829]. London: Hesperus Press Ltd., 2002.

=== Links ===
* [http://www.film.com/ www.film.com] Movie Trailers and Times, Reviews and Previews, Celebreties, TV, DVD etc.
* [http://elokuvantaju.uiah.fi/2001/english/study_material/study_material.jsp Cinemasense] Study material on cinematic techniques, including a word search for cinematic terms, which are explained and illustrated by film stills.
* [http://www.nitpickers.com/ nitpickers.com] Movie mistakes, movie errors, movie reviews.
* [http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms1.html Cinematic Terms - A Film-Making Glossary] Study material on cinematic terms explained and illustrated by examples.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States Capital punishment in the United States] - en.wikipedia.org
* [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ deathpenaltyinfo.org] Including a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=132&scid=17 List of Articles] and a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=130&scid=20 List of Books] on the Death Penalty.
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=main&menu=1 deathpenalty.org] "The Death Penalty Focus", an organization against the Death Penalty founded in 1988.
* [http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/states/maps/contents.htm deathpenaltycurriculum.org/states/maps] Interactive U.S. maps on the Death Penalty, including methods of execution, homicides and use of the death penalty, and execution on death row inmates (all by state).
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/CurriculumFeb.2006.pdf deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/curriculum] A pdf file showing suggested lesson plans for teachers. Including case studies, material on discussions, exams and essays, history of the Death Penalty, laws, international views and a suggested general reading list.
* Jonsson, Patrick. "Is self-defence law vigilante justice?". The Christian Science Monitor Feb. 24 2003 <http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0224/p02s01-usju.html>
* Guarnera, Daniel. "Hard to Kill: Why Can’t the U.S. Find a Suitable Execution Method?". International Review Jan. 4 2007 <http://www.internationalistreview.com/article.php?id=52>

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Mastermodul]]

2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty

2008-05-15T16:50:15Z

Drea: /* • 30.05.2008: Human rights activists on trial */

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(Option - see my letter on the [[2008_MM_Present_US-Cinema_and_the_Death_Penalty#.E2.80.A2_16.05.2008:_The_legal_system_on_trial|next session]] for details.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale ''The Life of David Gale''] (2003),

'''Thursday, May 15, 20.45, my place, Tannenkampstr. 12'''

(you supply drink, I'll supply food), --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:24, 14 May 2008 (CEST)
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* Fr 14 - 16
* A10 1-121a
* [[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]]
*[[Mastermodul]] Klausurvorbereitend: American Studies

The implementation of the death penalty is one of the major cultural differences between the US and Europe today. A number of movies have over the past two decades dealt with, if not effectively fuelled, the public controversy about capital punishment. The seminar will analyse and discuss some of these films against the background of the present debate and in a comparison with movies in which vigilante or self-administered justice and poetic justice create a form of capital punishment - more or less provocatively - beyond the reach of the public debate.

==• 11.04.2008: Introduction==
Discussion of the seminar plan and modes of participation.

==• 18.04.2008: Emotional imbalances: ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
*Dead Man Walking (1995)
Plot line, emotional balance, sympathies and how they are created, political messages.

==• 25.04.2008: The reception of ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)==
'''Wednesday, 23, 2008, 20:45''' my place, Tannenkampstr. 12: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Ein kurzer Film über das Töten (Poland 1988) [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_kurzer_Film_%C3%BCber_das_T%C3%B6ten German wikipedia]

'''Course preparation'''

''Dead Man Walking'' (1995) as an influential film - debates it managed to raise, debates which just joined the ongoing debate. We need a presentation on the reception history of the film (worth an ensuing seminar paper).

We will have three short presentations on the death penalty focussing on its more ore less "humane" modalities
*Antje + Marie Katrin: A historical perspective. Background: Michel Foucault ''Discipline and Punish'' (1975). See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discipline_and_Punish wikipedia] on the subject and read the first pages of the book which should be available in the library (you may refer to the German translation ''Überwachen und Strafen''). Another good book on the subject is Cesare Beccaria's (1738-1794) ''Of Crimes and Punishments'', available on the web in English: [http://www.constitution.org/cb/crim_pun.htm ''Of Crimes and Punishments'' (1764)].
*Philipp promised to take a look at the present US-debate - a good starting point is again [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States wikipedia] where you will find a chapter on methods used in the US.
*Jochen: will take a look at the general debate of humane executions. A good starting point are the links you get if you google Michael Portillo on the subject [http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=%22Michael+Portillo%22+%22humane+execution%22&btnG=Search]

All others are requested to take a look at the reception of the film and to feed their information into this page: [[Tim Robbins (dir.), Dead Man Walking (1995 film)|Dead Man Walking (USA 1995)]]. Give your link and a summary of your result. We should get an idea of the debate the film was able to produce to then compare this debate with the debate we had in class.

==• 02.05.2008: Truth and fiction==
* ''Dead Man Walking'' (1995)
* ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story'' (2004)
Both films dealt with actual cases. Was this link to reality important? How was it used in the film and in the ensuing debate?

Some Links:

*http://www.tookie.com/tookie_fact_sheet_10.18.05.pdf
*http://da.co.la.ca.us/pdf/swilliams.pdf
*http://www.savetookie.org/ // http://www.tookie.com/
*Snoop Dogg at San Quentin Prison speaking on Tookie http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=qASQBKwngsE&feature=related
::--[[User:Sonja|Sonja Büsing]] 13:30, 02.05.2008

==• 09.05.2008: The dark side==
*''Monster’s Ball'' (2001)
*''Identity'' (2003)
*''The Green Mile'' (1999)
The capital punishment seems to have a dark side - how is this dark side connected with the general appeal of the death penalty?

==• 16.05.2008: The legal system on trial==
*''A Time to Kill'' (1996)
*''Last Dance'' (1996)

A number of films focuses on loop holes of the American legal system - a potentially problematic issue we should connect with the ''Dirty Harry'' (with their potentially straight solutions) later on

----

'''second thoughts'''

Dear Participants of my Seminar on Capital Punishment in US Movies,

I still have not quite made up my mind about how we should proceed. I wanted to see a larger number of these films to get an idea of the "genre" - if one can speak of such a genre.

...and I think one can. People have ideas about what a movie of "this kind" should include. The advertising material for ''Monster's Ball'' proves the existence of the genre by denying that this film fits into it. ''Last Dance'' on the other hand blatantly exploits the genre conventions (of which I'd like to have the clearer picture) - at times ''Last Dance'' is almost a copy of ''Dead Man Walking'' though with reversed roles.

*Option one: We take a look into ''Last Dance'' - the debate might be flat at the moment, it might circle around ''Dead Man Walking'' as the movie with which one will compare the film.
*Option two: We take another look at ''Green Mile'' - I had a problem with the video projector last time and would make sure that we won't have the same problem again. Contra-indication here: It might be difficult to get an interesting discussion, since I did not plan two sessions with distinct topics before hand. I still have my own questions - yet I realised it is difficult to give them momentum: I am intrigued about this kind of magic realism. It makes me feel uneasy. I have spent some thoughts on this uneasiness over the weekend and realised it is a general problem I have with materials which want to be interpreted. It is the role of the intended interpretation per se which makes me ask for a cultural theory of such materials and their potentials (a difficult topic).
*Option three: We change the plan an move on to ''David Gale'' for next session. As you know I did not like the film - wondering whether it does not blatantly discredit the movement of human rights activists opposing capital punishment. I would offer an option to watch the movie at my place tomorrow, Thursday, 20.45 pm.

The reshuffling of the schedule could give us a chance to directly move on to Robert Altman's film and to use the questions Altman asks for the more interesting debate of ''Last Dance'' and ''True Crime'' in the ensuing sessions.

I am slightly in favour of option three - need, however, your consent to prepare ''David Gale'' for Friday.

I am also still waiting for the clearer picture of your personal plans of seminar-work. The seminar will not become interesting if you do not turn it into the platform on which you take your first steps into the works you intend to write. I want you to use the seminar to test observations and ideas and to get feedback from your colleagues,

best, --[[User:Olaf Simons|Olaf Simons]] 11:07, 14 May 2008 (CEST)

::PS ''Last Dance'' would (if we took option three) become part of three sessions circling around Altman's film. ''A Time to Kill'' would move into the self administered justice section. ''True Crime'' and ''Dirty Harry'' would move closer together.

---

* I'd prefer option three just because I didn't like the "Green Mile" too much. Heard quite a lot about "David Gale" and would like to see it. (Marie-Ann Mowka)
* ''David Gale'' would be okay, although I'd like to further discuss ''The Green Mile'', as well. However, maybe we should discuss the further outline of the seminar in the next session, which would give us the possibility to shift the postion of some films... --[[User:Bastian Martens|Bastian Martens]] 11:21, 15 May 2008 (CEST)

I think we should catch up with the "Green Mile" material we were up to watch last week and then continue with "David Gale". (Raimund Teske)

==• 30.05.2008: Human rights activists on trial==
*''The Life of David Gale'' (2003)
''The Life of David Gale'' (2003) is probably the worst movie on the list - worth examining as a questionable item.
I agree with Raimund

==• 06.06.2008: Hollywood on trial==
*''The Player'' (1992)
Invites a reevaluation of the films we have seen so far.

==• 13.06.2008: The separation of powers suspended: Or the cop as judge and executioner==
*''Dirty Harry'' (1971-1888)
We should take a look at the development and compare Eastwood's role here with his role in ''True Crime'' (1999)

==• 20.06.2008: The separation of powers suspended: Or the citizen as judge and executioner==
* ''A Time to Kill'' (1996)
* ''The Brave One'' (2007)
* ''Death Sentence'' (2007)
''A Time to Kill'' (1996) was already on the agenda in session 6 (May 16). The two new movies are recent productions able to reflect the public opinion on a much broader field of issues from gun control to the question of state authority. (A special question: does it matter that Jodie Foster acted in Taxi Driver before?

==• 27.06.2008: Poetic justice==
I leave this session open. There are numerous movies in which dangerous criminals challenge the police or the public - and have to die eventually. We have seen that the state can do the bloody job in the end, we have seen that individuals can take things into their own hands - a third option should be touched with all those films in which the criminal eventually kills himself, in an act of suicide or accidentally - punished by his own perverse drive or a higher justice (if we want to risk that interpretation).

==• 04.07.2008: Teaching the topic==
The session might take some of its inspiration from http://www.deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/CurriculumFeb.2006.pdf - a proposal of how the topic could be taught at school.

==• 11.07.2008: Final session==
Look back on the seminar and my feedback on the seminar evaluation.

===Topics===
====Background information====
* The history of the death penalty and Foucault's work.
* The legal status in the US
* Pro and contra: interest groups
* The question of method - from electrocution to the lethal injection - what is the function of the debate?
* Religion and the death penalty

====Seminar papers====
Be creative! And open a special section on the [[Talk:2008 MM Present US-Cinema and the Death Penalty|Discussion page]] to give outlines of topics you are interested in.

=== Films in which the death penalty plays a major role ===

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0972554/ ''Execution''] (2007) directed by Steven Scaffidi. In the year 1995 two filmmakers gained access to death row and filmed the final seven days of a man before he got executed. The Warden confiscated the film footage, but ten years later the filmmakers get the film footage back.

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption:_The_Stan_Tookie_Williams_Story ''Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story''] (2004) (TV) Film directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and starring Jamie Foxx. The film is based on the true story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the "Crips", a street gang in L.A. He was accused of murder, prisoned and executed. While in Death Row, he started writing children's novels, which earned him Nobel Peace Prize nominations. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388367/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_%28film%29 ''Identity''] (2003) directed by James Mangold. Is it possible/legal to sentence someone to death who's got "multiple personality"? Which of these "personalities" is sentenced to death? [http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/identity/index.html www.sonypictures.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt309698/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_David_Gale ''The Life of David Gale''] (2003) directed by Alan Parker, starring Kate Winslet and Kevin Spacey. An acitivist against the death penalty is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sentenced to death. While he is in prison, he tells his story to a reporter in flashbacks. http://www.thelifeofdavidgale.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289992/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_%28film%29 ''Monster''] (2003) directed by Patty Jenkins Adapting the true story of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a former prostitute who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the late 1980s and early 1990s. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/ IMDb] not ordered for library

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster%27s_ball ''Monster’s Ball''] (2001) directed by Marc Foster, starring Oscar-Winner Halle Barry and Billy Bob Thornton. Thornton plays a racist prison guard who falls in love with the wife of the last prisoner he executed and reexamines his own attitudes. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285742/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_%28film%29 ''The Green Mile''] (1999) directed by Frank Darabont, starring Tom Hanks and Micheal Clarke Duncan. The lives of prison guards leading the condemned prisoners to their executions, one of them went to prison on false accusation. http://thegreenmile.warnerbros.com/ [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120689/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Crime_%281999_film%29 ''True Crime''] (1999) directed by Clint Eastwood, based on Andrew Klavan's novel, who also wrote the screenplay. Frank Beachum was sentenced to death but claims to be innocent. Steve Everett played by Eastwood is a journalist who attempts to find the truth about the murder. [http://www.truecrimethemovie.com/ www.truecrimethemovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139668/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Dance_%28film%29 ''Last Dance''] (1996) directed by Bruce Beresford. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116827/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_%28film%29 ''Dead Man Walking''] (1995) directed by Tim Robbins, starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112818/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player ''The Player''] (1992) directed by Robert Altman using a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105151/ IMDb]

=== Films in which self-administered justice becomes a major topic ===

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Sentence_%28film%29 ''Death Sentence''] (2007) A drama directed by James Wan. With Kevin Bacon, John Goodman and Kelly Preston. An executive witnesses a crime that changes his life. He wants to protect his family and seeks revenge. [http://www.deathsentencemovie.com/ www.deathsentencemovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804461/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brave_One_%282007_film%29 ''The Brave One''] (2007) directed by Neil Jordan, starring Jodie Foster. A mayhem victim avenges the death of her husband under the protection of the police officer who is supposed to solve the case. [http://thebraveone.warnerbros.com/ www.thebraveone.warnerbros.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0476964/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Punisher_%282004_film%29 ''The Punisher''] (2004) directed by Jonathan Hensleigh. After his wife and family are killed, Frank Castle takes it upon himself to distribute punishment to those responsible for the vendetta. [http://www.punishermovie.com/ www.punishermovie.com] [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330793/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Jeopardy_(film) ''Double Jeopardy''] (1999) directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Ashley Judd and Tommy Lee Jones. An innocent woman is sentenced to death for the murder of her husband. While in prison, she discovers that her husband is still alive and that he and her best friend betrayed her. After her release on probation, she wants to take revenge; based on the American law that a person cannot be re-accused of the same crime. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0150377/ IMDb]

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_to_Kill_(film) ''A Time to Kill''] (1996) based on the novel written by John Grisham. A father takes revenge on the rapists of his daughter. [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117913/ IMDb]

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Harry ''Dirty Harry''] (1971) with its sequels which handle the topic of vigilante justice in variations till [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Pool ''The Dead Pool''] (1988).

=== Films in which the accidental death of the criminal reestablishes a higher justice ===

=== Documentary films (German/additional/available at the university library) ===

* Dubois, Jean-Paul. ''Henker erzählen: Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankreich, 2004. Fernsehmitschnitt Sw: USA. Fernsehmitschnitt: WDR, 22.10.2004. (VHS, farb., 50 Min.) (Dokumentation über Henker in den USA, die sich kritisch mit ihrer Arbeit und der Todesstrafe auseinandersetzen)

* Kessel, Julie von. ''The Innocence Project.'' Deutschland, 2002. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 03.12.2002. (VHS, farb., 20 Min.) (Bericht über ein DNA-Projekt der New Yorker Columbia University, das sich mit Schuld oder Unschuld zum Tode Verurteilter beschäftigt.)

* Steinberg, Klaus; Bock, Astrid. ''Leben mit der Hinrichtung: Begegnungen im Todestrakt.'' Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ZDF (37 Grad), 12.08.1997. (VHS, farb., 30 Min.') (Bericht über zum Tode verurteilte Häftlinge in den USA.)

* Walwin, Kent; Trombley, Stephen [Reg.]. ''L 'état meurtrier'' = Der Staat als Mörder. Deutschland/Frankreich, 1996. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 21.3.1996, 20,45 Uhr. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., farb., 75 Min.) (Auseinandersetzung um die Todesstrafe vom Ursprung bis zur heutigen Praxis in den USA)

* Hoewijk, Jaap van. ''Procedure 769: a hanging.'' Niederlande, 1995. Fernsehmitschnitt: West 3, 15.4.1996, 23,00 Uhr. (VHS, farb., 80 Min) (Der Film geht der Frage nach, warum Angehörige des Täters und der Opfer von Robert A. Harris dessen Hinrichtung beiwohnten.)

* Leacock, Richard; Pennebaker, Don Alan. ''The chair'' = Der Stuhl. Monospur dt., Stereospur engl. USA, 1963. Fernsehmitschnitt: Arte, 18.10.1996. (VHS, s/w, 75 Min.) (Documentary about the death sentence.)

* Reinhold, Frank. ''Take care'' = Gib auf dich acht! Deutschland, 1997. Fernsehmitschnitt: ARTE, 10.6.1997. (VHS, Zweikanalton, Monospur dt., Stereospur franz., farb., 60 Min.) (Die Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem in den USA zum Tode verurteilten Schwarzen Arthur Lee Williams und einer Deutschen von Amnesty International.)

===Literature===
MLA on "Death Penalty", "Capital Punishment", "Execution", "The Player"

'''2007'''
*Tolkin, Michael. "[Fiction into Film.]" ''BookForum: The Review for Art, Fiction, & Culture'', 14:2 (2007 June-Aug), pp. 36-37. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-2006).]

'''2006'''
* O'Shea, Kathleen. Killing the Killers: Women on Death Row in the United States. pp. 67-82. Burfoot, Annette (ed. and introd.) Lord, Susan (ed. and introd.). ''Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence'' Cultural Studies Series. 6. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier UP, 2006. xxii, 328 pp. (Book article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; television; in United States; 1998; treatment of women murderers; religious conversion; relationship to capital punishment; social conventions; of femininity; objectification.]

'''2005'''
* George, Diana and Shoos, Diane. "Deflecting the Political in the Visual Images of Execution and the Death Penalty Debate". ''College English'', 67:6 (2005 July), pp. 587-609. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; compared to photographs; of lynching; relationship to witness; voyeurism.]
*Poirot, Valérie. Cinéma et engagement: Représentations de la peine de mort et images d'exécution dans les productions américaines et françaises. ''Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences'', 66:3 (2005 Sept), p. 798. (Dissertation abstract) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; in France; United States; 1970-1999; treatment of execution.]
* Reinelt, Janelle. "The Ambivalence of Catholic Compassion". ''Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism'', 20:1 (2005 Fall), pp. 103-12. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to Christianity.]
*Schuyler, Michael T. "'Traffic Was a Bitch': Gender, Race and Spectatorship in Robert Altman's The Player." ''Journal of Narrative Theory'', 35:2 (2005 Summer), pp. 218-47. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of women; blacks; relationship to spectator; in Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992).]

'''2003'''
* Horeck, Tanya. "From Documentary to Drama: Capturing Aileen Wuornos." ''Screen'', 48:2 (2007 Summer), pp. 141-59. [Treatment of Wuornos, Aileen (1956-2002); women murderers; capital punishment; in Broomfield, Nicholas (1948-) and Churchill, Joan: Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) compared to Jenkins, Patty (1971-): Monster (2003).] see: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Wuornos:_The_Selling_of_a_Serial_Killer en.wikipedia.org]
*Goldsmith, David F. "Monster." ''Creative Screenwriting'', 11:1 (2004 Jan-Feb), pp. 30-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; crime film; treatment of prostitute; sexual abuse; relationship to revenge; capital punishment; in Jenkins, Patty: Monster (2003).]
* Meranze, Michael. "Michel Foucault, the Death Penalty and the Crisis of Historical Understanding." ''Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques,'' 29:2 (2003 Summer), pp. 191-209. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: French literature; 1900-1999; Foucault, Michel (1926-1984): L'Histoire de la sexualité (1976); History of Sexuality: "Il faut défendre la société"; prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to war; race; power.]
* Parker, Alan. "Gale Force: My Personal Journey to a Death Row Drama." ''Film Journal International'', 106:2 (2003 Feb), p. 12, 30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of capital punishment; in Parker, Alan (1944-): The Life of David Gale (2003); interview.]

'''1999'''
*Neubert, Ingo. "Sichtweisen des Fremden: Der amerikanische Dokumentarfilm und das Lernziel interkultureller Kompetenz: Dargestellt an der Direct-Cinema-Produktion The Chair zur Situation der Todesstrafe in den USA." ''Anglistik und Englischunterricht'', 62 (1999), pp. 407-30. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; film genres; documentary film; treatment of capital punishment; in Drew, Robert L. (1924-): The Chair (1962).]
*Prédal, René. "The Player ou la mort du scénariste," pp. 127-47. Estève, Michel (ed. and introd.). ''Robert Altman.'' Paris, France: Minard, 1999. 209 pp. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); novel; intertextuality; plot; relationship to Hollywood; in screenplay; for film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]
* Stoekl, Allan. "Execution and the Human." ''Intertexts'', 3:1 (1999 Spring), pp. 3-31. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Dick, Philip K. (1928-1982): Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968); novel; treatment of capital punishment; murder; human condition; in Scott, Ridley (1938-): Blade Runner (1982) as film adaptation compared to Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804): Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Rechtslehre.]

'''1998'''
*Lauritzen, Paul. "The Knowing Heart: Moral Argument and the Appeal to Experience". ''Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal'', 81:1-2 (1998 Spring-Summer), pp. 213-34. (Journal article) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Prejean, Helen (1939-): Dead Man Walking (1993); prose; treatment of capital punishment; relationship to morality; experience.]

'''1997'''
* Guest, David. ''Sentenced to Death: The American Novel and Capital Punishment.'' Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 1997. xx, 179 pp. (Book) [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; novel; treatment of capital punishment.]
*Nayman, Ira. "The Adaptable Altman." ''Creative Screenwriting,'' 4:3 (1997 Fall), pp. 84-96. [Subject Terms: American literature; 1900-1999; Chandler, Raymond (1888-1959): The Long Goodbye (1954); novel; and Tolkin, Michael (1950-): The Player (1988); Carver, Raymond (1936-1988); role of film adaptation; by Altman, Robert (1925-).]

'''1994'''
*Danziger, Marie. "Basic Instinct: Grappling for Post-Modern Mind Control." ''Literature/Film Quarterly,'' 22:1 (1994), pp. 7-10. [Subject Terms: Dramatic arts; film; treatment of power; in Verhoeven, Paul (1938-): Basic Instinct (1992); Altman, Robert (1925-2006): The Player (1992)]
*Pilipp, Frank. "Satirizing Hollywood: The Self-Referentiality of Robert Altman's The Player: Co-Sponsored by the Virginia Humanities Conf. and the Virginia Center for Media and Culture," pp. 80-84. Schwartz, Joel (introd.). ''Proceedings of the Conference on Film and American Culture.'' Williamsburg: Roy R. Charles Center, College of William and Mary, 1994. 111 pp.

'''1992'''
*Richolson, Janice. "The Player: An Interview with Robert Altman." ''Cineaste: America's Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema,''' 19:2-3 (1992), p. 61.

=== Further reading (available at the library) ===

* Amnesty International. ''Todesstrafe in den USA.'' Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1989.

* Bedau, Hugo A. [Hrsg.] ''Capital punishment in the United States.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1976. ISBN 0-404-10325-1

* Martschukat, Jürgen. ''Geschichte der Todesstrafe in Nordamerika: von der Kolonialzeit bis zur Gegenwart.'' 1. Ed. München: Beck, 2002. ISBN 3-406-47611-2 (Pb.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition.'' New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001. (not available at the library)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Crime and punishment: perspectives from the humanities.'' Vol. 37. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005. ISBN 0-7623-1245-9 (hbk.)

* Sarat, Austin. ''Punishment politics and culture.'' Vol. 30. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004. ISBN 0-7623-1072-3

* Schwed, Roger E. ''Abolition and capital punishment: the United States' judicial, political, and moral barometer.'' New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, 1983. ISBN 0-404-61623-2

====Fiction (additional) ====

* John Grisham, ''The Chamber''. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
* Victor Hugo, ''The Last Day of a Condemned Man'' [1829]. London: Hesperus Press Ltd., 2002.

=== Links ===
* [http://www.film.com/ www.film.com] Movie Trailers and Times, Reviews and Previews, Celebreties, TV, DVD etc.
* [http://elokuvantaju.uiah.fi/2001/english/study_material/study_material.jsp Cinemasense] Study material on cinematic techniques, including a word search for cinematic terms, which are explained and illustrated by film stills.
* [http://www.nitpickers.com/ nitpickers.com] Movie mistakes, movie errors, movie reviews.
* [http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms1.html Cinematic Terms - A Film-Making Glossary] Study material on cinematic terms explained and illustrated by examples.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States Capital punishment in the United States] - en.wikipedia.org
* [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ deathpenaltyinfo.org] Including a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=132&scid=17 List of Articles] and a [http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=130&scid=20 List of Books] on the Death Penalty.
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/index.php?pid=main&menu=1 deathpenalty.org] "The Death Penalty Focus", an organization against the Death Penalty founded in 1988.
* [http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/states/maps/contents.htm deathpenaltycurriculum.org/states/maps] Interactive U.S. maps on the Death Penalty, including methods of execution, homicides and use of the death penalty, and execution on death row inmates (all by state).
* [http://www.deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/CurriculumFeb.2006.pdf deathpenalty.org/pdf_files/curriculum] A pdf file showing suggested lesson plans for teachers. Including case studies, material on discussions, exams and essays, history of the Death Penalty, laws, international views and a suggested general reading list.
* Jonsson, Patrick. "Is self-defence law vigilante justice?". The Christian Science Monitor Feb. 24 2003 <http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0224/p02s01-usju.html>
* Guarnera, Daniel. "Hard to Kill: Why Can’t the U.S. Find a Suitable Execution Method?". International Review Jan. 4 2007 <http://www.internationalistreview.com/article.php?id=52>

[[Category:Summer 2008]]
[[Category:Mastermodul]]

Richard Head, English Rogue (1665)

2008-05-14T11:30:15Z

Drea: /* Chap. III */

We have three paginations and a continuous but slightly erratic chapter segmentation. I offer a pdf file at the end, you need however the anglistik Oldenburg login to access it. Get a pdf from eebo (use marked list to do that), if you have lost the password.

==Excerpt==

===Preface===
The protagonist is not named, the author does not want the protagonist to recognize himself. The story is a collection of narrations told by rouges. Any resemblance to other rouge storys are possible but not on purpose. But the story is not like a greek myth - it is based on facts rather than myths.

===Chap. I===
THe protagonists grandfather was a farmer who decided that his eldest son (protagonists father) should learn so long, till he could read any printed or written hand. But he plunged himself over head and heals in all manners of sensuality and at last was expelled from college and was forced to return to his father. After no long time a gentle (and wealthy) woman fell in love with him and got married. After her portion was spended the protagonists father had to work. The Protagonist about his life: "It was always my disposition rather to die by the hand of a common Executioner, than want my revenge, though ever so slightly grounded. ... Had I then died, no other guilt could have rendred me culpable before Gods Tribunal, but what was derivative before Adam."

===Chap. II===
At the age of about five he lured one of his father’s turkeys in a trap and beat him to death because the turkey did not like his red coat. His mother was not troubled by this because she loved him so much. He and his mother leaved Ireland because it was not save anymore, his father was left behind. His mother took care of them by using her eloquent tongue and brains. He was ashamed to go to school because he was not able to read until the age of ten and the quickly became a bookworm. For his small faults he was whipped with the rod, he was careful that his thefts and rougeries were not discovered. He was send to a boarding school and kept low on food to improve his wits. He stole money from his master but finally was discovered to be the thief and was punished hard by his master (whipped with a Cat of Nine-tails and the wounds washed with vinegar or water and salt). The master told his mother about his faults, but the master know only a tenth of those childish rougeries - finally he run away.

===Chap. III===
He lived on blackberries and nuts sleeping under the Canopy of Heaven; he was sad to leave his heartbroken mother. He found a sleeping place in a barn, but was scared to be awaken by strange creatures. it turned out that these creatures were gypsies; they offered him to accompany them but he did not trust them longer than that night.

===Chap. IV===

===Chap. V===

===Chap. VI===

===Chap. VII===

===Chap. VIII===

===Chap. IX===

===Chap. X===

===Chap. XI===

===Chap. XII p.100===

The protagonist goes to London, where he meets an acquaintance, who tells him the story of how he mistook his mistress’s laughter for signs of affection. He explains his love to her in a letter. She answers this letter with a note that she would leave her bed chamber open for him, so he could come to her. However, at night he accidentally tries to get into his master’s bed. After a short chase he is caught and whipped by his master, who then sends him to bed again. The man takes some bed sheets, ties them together and climbs out of the window to escape. As one of the knots slipped open, he fell down and felt like he had broken every bone. He finds a cobbler’s stall that had shortly been broken open, where he lies down to sleep. When the cobbler returns the next morning, he thinks that the man broke open his stall and therefore beats him up. Finally, the man gets the opportunity to explain, the cobbler feels pity and apologizes. They part.

At this point, the story returns to the protagonist and the other man still sitting in an ale house. They agree to change clothes, for some reason. Some people arrive who recognize the clothes the protagonist had stolen before. But as it is the other young man who wears these clothes, they arrest him instead.

Having no money, he hungers for some time, loosing weight so that he appears “like a walking skeleton” (p. 107). He goes to an inn, where he orders drink and food. As he wants to go to his chamber, the landlady asks for payment in advance, which he cannot offer. She refuses to bargain, so he tries to escape, but is caught, beaten up and his clothes are taken as payment. The next day he steals some bread from a baker. Later he goes to a restaurant, where he takes some food and ale right of the table of two gentlemen, but leaves before they act.

===Chap. XI p.2-1===

He meets a man who offers him good work on a merchant‘s ship and afterwards on the merchant’s plantation in Virginia. He is also offered food and lodging for the two days he has to wait until the ship arrives. But he knows that this is how galley slaves are taken. When he is taken from the lodging to the ship he manages to overturn the rowboat in which he was taken. He escapes and eventually ends up in the company and bed of a woman who felt sorry at the miserable sight of him.

===Chap. XII [2] p.2-8===

He turns to stealing as his new profession and steals a good cloak. Afterwards he gambles with some ordinary people and wins some good money. He then writes a letter to his former master that he regrets running away from him and begs his forgiveness. His master accepts this apology and lets him return into his service.

===Chap. XIII===

Having returned into his master’s service he decides to make the world believe he had really changed, but secretly plans “to build [his] future estate upon the ruine of other men” (p. 12). He turns to religion, which is in his opinion the best way to gain his mistress’s favour and confidence and succeeds therein. She gives him many signs of her desire and devotion and one days tells her husband that she would like to visit a friend and that their servant (she calls him Thomas) was to accompany her. While crossing a lake with a rowboat, she explains her love to him more openly than ever before. He first resists politely, but then lets events take their course. At night, she slips out of her bed and into his.

The same night, her husband is woken up by the noises she made when returning to her own bed. He mistakes these noises and the apparition of spirit in white sheets as the presence of a ghost in his chamber. Therefore he decides to sleep in his wife’s chamber from then on.

A couple of nights pass, when the cat of the house gets stuck with her tail on a hook in the cellar and therefore makes horrible noise. The master takes this as a proof for his first encounter, but then is shown the true source of this moaning spirit. He is so relieved that from the next night on, he slept in his own chamber again, wherefore the mistress and the protagonist could continue their nightly affair.

===Chap. XIV===

===Chap. XV===

===Chap. XVI===

===Chap. XVII===

===Chap. XVIII===

===Chap. XIX===

===Chap. XX===

===Chap. XXI===

===Chap. XXII===

===Chap. XXIII===

===Chap. XXIV===
The protagonist arrives in Ireland, near Dublin, having a new name. He’s got no possessions for the ship bringing those sunk. Difficulties to understand the Irish and their habits occur.

He takes a “coach” to Dublin which he describes as a place filled with mischief.

He finds a place to stay, has his hair cut off and gets a wig to be able to stay incognito. He’s got problems to got used to his new self.

When his Landlady demands payment, which he can’t give her, he tries to flatter her. This doesn’t help much and, partly by good luck, he finds her in bed with another man one day. In order to stay silent about this incidence he receives ten pounds.

===Chap. XXV===
He loses this money as soon as he received it, by gaming, and soon has to live from water and little food only. At the same time he tries hard to pretend to be living and eating as good as he used to. His stomach begins to act up, he can’t sleep, loses weight and looks like a “walking skeleton”.

===Chap. XXVI===
He happens to end up at a house where he meets “Mr.Doctor” who has a look at him and where an old lady takes care of him and offers him food which his body can’t hold onto for too long. Eventually though, he begins to get better for the lady feels sorry for his misery and makes sure he gets back to his former state. As payment though, he has to sleep with her.

===Chap. XXVII===
Being weary of the city he travels to the country. At a small river he meets a young woman who speaks Irish and whom he can’t understand yet she seems to want to lie with him. But at the last moment she cries out and he can hardly escape as he has to fight / is being chased by a couple of “fellows”. That night he sleepy in an Inn where he’s being treated badly as well. He gets horrible food and drinks which he only pretends to consume and he has to sleep near the animals. Tired of the bad treatment of the English by Irish country people he travels back to Dublin.

===Chap. XXVI p.2-83===

===Chap. XXVII p.2-87===

===Chap. XXVIII p.2-94===
Chapter XXVIII:

The rogue wants to rob a farmer’s house but falls in love with the farmer’s daughter. He meets her outside the farmer’s house. She tells her parents that he is a gentleman who doesn’t know the way and that he wants to stay for the night. With this excuse he gets into the farmer’s house. The next morning he seems to be ill and due to this illness he has an excuse to stay. During his stay of at least two weeks the rogue is visited by a few doctors. However, they cannot cure his disease. Meanwhile, the farmer’s daughter spends every evening at the visitor’s bedside. Being recovered, the rogue wants to compensate the farmer’s expenses by marrying his daughter. Still, he wants to know where the farmer keeps his money. The daughter tells him that her father doesn’t have any money in the house. Consequently, the rogue doesn’t want to stay any longer. He leaves and sends the daughter money and an accompanying letter which he explains his departure. He declares that he has taught her everything a woman should know - that he has enriched her mind.

===Chap. XXIX p.2-102===
Chapter XXIX page 79-83 summary:

The same night the man hears that his Landlady is very sick and that she wants to see him. But when he reaches her place she has already died. He takes her hand and finds ten pieces of gold in it and puts them secretly into his pocket. He stayes another two or three days in her house and returns to his new friend who tries to persuade him to commit another crime with him. The man refuses and they part in anger.His friend is caught and is sentenced to death. He visits him in prison and they have a discussion about God. A couple of days later he watches his friends execution.
(Manuela Leidel)

Chapter XXIX page 102-105 Summary:

After leaving the country girl he stops an an Inn.In the evening he continues his trip and meets an armed gentleman along the way.They get into a fight and kill eachothers horses. He manages to get on top of the other man an wants to steal his money. He finds no gold underneath the clothes but breasts. The gentleman is a woman. A robber woman. She takes him to her place and they become friends.
(Manuela Leidel)

Chapter XXIX:

After leaving the farmer’s house he meets a man whom he wants to rob. In the course of the undertaking, the rogue gets shot in the leg and the victim’s horse gets killed. While searching the man, the rogue discovers him to be a woman. In the end she takes him to her place and they become friends.

===Chap. XXX, page 105-110===

The man stays at the robber women`s house for a while and she tells him about her life. How she was raised, that her father was a sword cutler and that she was taught how to fight with a sword. She tells him that she got married to an Innkeeper at the age of fifteen and how her husband treated her badly. She descided to become a robber and took revenge by stealing her husbands money and leaving him.
The man gets to know some of her robber friends and leaves after some days.

Chaper XXX:

The woman he has met tells him about her life. She is the daughter of a sword-cutler and has spent a lot of time in her father’s shop where she learnt how to handle a sword. At the age of 15 she married an inn-keeper, an insolent, imperious man who beat her. Since she didn’t have money she began to steal. She disguised herself by wearing men’s clothes. Finally, in order to take revenge, the woman robbed her husband and left. She gives the rogue the advice to treat women well because otherwise they will take revenge on him.

===Chap. XXXI, 111-117===

The man riding on his own again thinks a lot about the woman robber. He is impressed of the way she deceives her victims-she would put a cushion underneath her clothes, pretending to be pregnant. Men riding along would offer her a ride and when they reached a good place she would overwhelm them and take their possessions.
The man reaches an Inn and gets the information that a wealthy unarmed gentleman left the Inn an hour ago. The man stays for one drink only and rides after the gentleman.He finally reaches him and tells him to hand him his money. The gentleman, to the robbers surprise, is well armed and fires a pistol at him and attacks him with a sword. The robber is injured and the gentleman, a robber himself, takes away his money and his horse.He had tricked the robber through the unsuspecting Innkeeper.
The man takes the old horse from the gentleman-robber and rides to a town nearby.The people are very friendly and take care of him.The gentleman-robber is not found.

Chapter XXXI:

After leaving the woman he arrives at an inn where he wants to rest. However, the hastler keeps him from doing so by telling him about a rich man who has left a short while ago. The rogue is able to find the man but has to find out that the rich man is not an easy prey. He is able to fire at the rogue and escapes with the rogue’s money and the rogue’s horse. Left with his victim’s horse, the rogue is attacked by five or six rogues. He manages to escape and rests in an unknown place. Unfortunately, someone recognizes the rich man’s horse. One assumes that the rogue has murdered the rich gentleman and decides to hang him for the committed crime. However, the rogue is discharged when the rich gentleman appears.

===Chap. XXXII===

===Chap. XXXIII===

===Chap. XXXIV===

===Chap. XXXV===

===Chap. XXXVI===

===Chap. XXXVII===

===Chap. XXXVIII===
page 75 - 78 summary :

He walks down the street and notices a man with an interesting and very used wardrobe. He describes the man´s hat, doublet, cloak, breechea and skirts. He invites the man into an Ale-house an questions him about his stange outfit. He brings the man new clothes and walks with him in the streets.They see an easy to steal hogshead of wine. The man "hires" two or three more Rouges and they steal the hogshead at night.

page 94-102 summary:

He meets a young country girl while riding down a road and is amazed by her beauty.
He stays the night at her family´s house and pretends that he is very sick the next day so that he can stay longer. After beeing sick for about two weeks he asks the girls parents to let him marry her. They accept. Her father catches them naked and wants them to marry quickly.The man leaves unknown and sends the girl twenty pieces of gold and a poem.

===Chap. XXXIX===

===Chap. XL===

===Chap. XLI===

===Chap. XLII===

===Chap. XLIII===

===Chap. XLIV===

===Chap. XLV===

===Chap. XLVI===

===Chap. XLVII===

===Chap. XLVIII===

===Chap. XLIX===

===Chap. L===

===Chap. LI p.3-1===

===Chap. LII===

===Chap. LIII===

===Chap. LIV===

===Chap. LV===

===Chap. LVI===

===Chap. LVII===

===Chap. LVIII===

===Chap. LIX===

===Chap. LX===

===Chap. LXI===

===Chap. LXII===

===Chap. XIII===

===Chap. LXIV===

===Chap. LXV===

===Chap. LXVI===

===Chap. LXVII===

===Chap. LXVIII===

===Chap. LXIX===

===Chap. LXX===

===Chap. LXXI===

===Chap. LXXII===

===Chap. XXIII===

===Chap. XXIV===

===Chap. XXV===

===Chap. XXVI===

==Links==
*[Richard Head] ''The English rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant''. London: Francis Kirkman, 1666. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=15585368&FILE=../session/1210091335_12425&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=default EEBO] [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1666_Head_The_English_Rogue.pdf Anglistik Server Oldenburg]
*[A shortened cheap book version:] ''The life and death of the English rogue, or, His last legacy to the world.'' London, 1679. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=12253472&FILE=../session/1210087652_12132&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&DISPLAY=AUTHOR EEBO]

[[Category:17th century|1665]]
[[Category:1660s|1665]]
[[Category:By author|Head, Richard]]

Richard Head, English Rogue (1665)

2008-05-14T11:23:58Z

Drea: /* Chap. II */

We have three paginations and a continuous but slightly erratic chapter segmentation. I offer a pdf file at the end, you need however the anglistik Oldenburg login to access it. Get a pdf from eebo (use marked list to do that), if you have lost the password.

==Excerpt==

===Preface===
The protagonist is not named, the author does not want the protagonist to recognize himself. The story is a collection of narrations told by rouges. Any resemblance to other rouge storys are possible but not on purpose. But the story is not like a greek myth - it is based on facts rather than myths.

===Chap. I===
THe protagonists grandfather was a farmer who decided that his eldest son (protagonists father) should learn so long, till he could read any printed or written hand. But he plunged himself over head and heals in all manners of sensuality and at last was expelled from college and was forced to return to his father. After no long time a gentle (and wealthy) woman fell in love with him and got married. After her portion was spended the protagonists father had to work. The Protagonist about his life: "It was always my disposition rather to die by the hand of a common Executioner, than want my revenge, though ever so slightly grounded. ... Had I then died, no other guilt could have rendred me culpable before Gods Tribunal, but what was derivative before Adam."

===Chap. II===
At the age of about five he lured one of his father’s turkeys in a trap and beat him to death because the turkey did not like his red coat. His mother was not troubled by this because she loved him so much. He and his mother leaved Ireland because it was not save anymore, his father was left behind. His mother took care of them by using her eloquent tongue and brains. He was ashamed to go to school because he was not able to read until the age of ten and the quickly became a bookworm. For his small faults he was whipped with the rod, he was careful that his thefts and rougeries were not discovered. He was send to a boarding school and kept low on food to improve his wits. He stole money from his master but finally was discovered to be the thief and was punished hard by his master (whipped with a Cat of Nine-tails and the wounds washed with vinegar or water and salt). The master told his mother about his faults, but the master know only a tenth of those childish rougeries - finally he run away.

===Chap. III===

===Chap. IV===

===Chap. V===

===Chap. VI===

===Chap. VII===

===Chap. VIII===

===Chap. IX===

===Chap. X===

===Chap. XI===

===Chap. XII p.100===

The protagonist goes to London, where he meets an acquaintance, who tells him the story of how he mistook his mistress’s laughter for signs of affection. He explains his love to her in a letter. She answers this letter with a note that she would leave her bed chamber open for him, so he could come to her. However, at night he accidentally tries to get into his master’s bed. After a short chase he is caught and whipped by his master, who then sends him to bed again. The man takes some bed sheets, ties them together and climbs out of the window to escape. As one of the knots slipped open, he fell down and felt like he had broken every bone. He finds a cobbler’s stall that had shortly been broken open, where he lies down to sleep. When the cobbler returns the next morning, he thinks that the man broke open his stall and therefore beats him up. Finally, the man gets the opportunity to explain, the cobbler feels pity and apologizes. They part.

At this point, the story returns to the protagonist and the other man still sitting in an ale house. They agree to change clothes, for some reason. Some people arrive who recognize the clothes the protagonist had stolen before. But as it is the other young man who wears these clothes, they arrest him instead.

Having no money, he hungers for some time, loosing weight so that he appears “like a walking skeleton” (p. 107). He goes to an inn, where he orders drink and food. As he wants to go to his chamber, the landlady asks for payment in advance, which he cannot offer. She refuses to bargain, so he tries to escape, but is caught, beaten up and his clothes are taken as payment. The next day he steals some bread from a baker. Later he goes to a restaurant, where he takes some food and ale right of the table of two gentlemen, but leaves before they act.

===Chap. XI p.2-1===

He meets a man who offers him good work on a merchant‘s ship and afterwards on the merchant’s plantation in Virginia. He is also offered food and lodging for the two days he has to wait until the ship arrives. But he knows that this is how galley slaves are taken. When he is taken from the lodging to the ship he manages to overturn the rowboat in which he was taken. He escapes and eventually ends up in the company and bed of a woman who felt sorry at the miserable sight of him.

===Chap. XII [2] p.2-8===

He turns to stealing as his new profession and steals a good cloak. Afterwards he gambles with some ordinary people and wins some good money. He then writes a letter to his former master that he regrets running away from him and begs his forgiveness. His master accepts this apology and lets him return into his service.

===Chap. XIII===

Having returned into his master’s service he decides to make the world believe he had really changed, but secretly plans “to build [his] future estate upon the ruine of other men” (p. 12). He turns to religion, which is in his opinion the best way to gain his mistress’s favour and confidence and succeeds therein. She gives him many signs of her desire and devotion and one days tells her husband that she would like to visit a friend and that their servant (she calls him Thomas) was to accompany her. While crossing a lake with a rowboat, she explains her love to him more openly than ever before. He first resists politely, but then lets events take their course. At night, she slips out of her bed and into his.

The same night, her husband is woken up by the noises she made when returning to her own bed. He mistakes these noises and the apparition of spirit in white sheets as the presence of a ghost in his chamber. Therefore he decides to sleep in his wife’s chamber from then on.

A couple of nights pass, when the cat of the house gets stuck with her tail on a hook in the cellar and therefore makes horrible noise. The master takes this as a proof for his first encounter, but then is shown the true source of this moaning spirit. He is so relieved that from the next night on, he slept in his own chamber again, wherefore the mistress and the protagonist could continue their nightly affair.

===Chap. XIV===

===Chap. XV===

===Chap. XVI===

===Chap. XVII===

===Chap. XVIII===

===Chap. XIX===

===Chap. XX===

===Chap. XXI===

===Chap. XXII===

===Chap. XXIII===

===Chap. XXIV===
The protagonist arrives in Ireland, near Dublin, having a new name. He’s got no possessions for the ship bringing those sunk. Difficulties to understand the Irish and their habits occur.

He takes a “coach” to Dublin which he describes as a place filled with mischief.

He finds a place to stay, has his hair cut off and gets a wig to be able to stay incognito. He’s got problems to got used to his new self.

When his Landlady demands payment, which he can’t give her, he tries to flatter her. This doesn’t help much and, partly by good luck, he finds her in bed with another man one day. In order to stay silent about this incidence he receives ten pounds.

===Chap. XXV===
He loses this money as soon as he received it, by gaming, and soon has to live from water and little food only. At the same time he tries hard to pretend to be living and eating as good as he used to. His stomach begins to act up, he can’t sleep, loses weight and looks like a “walking skeleton”.

===Chap. XXVI===
He happens to end up at a house where he meets “Mr.Doctor” who has a look at him and where an old lady takes care of him and offers him food which his body can’t hold onto for too long. Eventually though, he begins to get better for the lady feels sorry for his misery and makes sure he gets back to his former state. As payment though, he has to sleep with her.

===Chap. XXVII===
Being weary of the city he travels to the country. At a small river he meets a young woman who speaks Irish and whom he can’t understand yet she seems to want to lie with him. But at the last moment she cries out and he can hardly escape as he has to fight / is being chased by a couple of “fellows”. That night he sleepy in an Inn where he’s being treated badly as well. He gets horrible food and drinks which he only pretends to consume and he has to sleep near the animals. Tired of the bad treatment of the English by Irish country people he travels back to Dublin.

===Chap. XXVI p.2-83===

===Chap. XXVII p.2-87===

===Chap. XXVIII p.2-94===
Chapter XXVIII:

The rogue wants to rob a farmer’s house but falls in love with the farmer’s daughter. He meets her outside the farmer’s house. She tells her parents that he is a gentleman who doesn’t know the way and that he wants to stay for the night. With this excuse he gets into the farmer’s house. The next morning he seems to be ill and due to this illness he has an excuse to stay. During his stay of at least two weeks the rogue is visited by a few doctors. However, they cannot cure his disease. Meanwhile, the farmer’s daughter spends every evening at the visitor’s bedside. Being recovered, the rogue wants to compensate the farmer’s expenses by marrying his daughter. Still, he wants to know where the farmer keeps his money. The daughter tells him that her father doesn’t have any money in the house. Consequently, the rogue doesn’t want to stay any longer. He leaves and sends the daughter money and an accompanying letter which he explains his departure. He declares that he has taught her everything a woman should know - that he has enriched her mind.

===Chap. XXIX p.2-102===
Chapter XXIX page 79-83 summary:

The same night the man hears that his Landlady is very sick and that she wants to see him. But when he reaches her place she has already died. He takes her hand and finds ten pieces of gold in it and puts them secretly into his pocket. He stayes another two or three days in her house and returns to his new friend who tries to persuade him to commit another crime with him. The man refuses and they part in anger.His friend is caught and is sentenced to death. He visits him in prison and they have a discussion about God. A couple of days later he watches his friends execution.
(Manuela Leidel)

Chapter XXIX page 102-105 Summary:

After leaving the country girl he stops an an Inn.In the evening he continues his trip and meets an armed gentleman along the way.They get into a fight and kill eachothers horses. He manages to get on top of the other man an wants to steal his money. He finds no gold underneath the clothes but breasts. The gentleman is a woman. A robber woman. She takes him to her place and they become friends.
(Manuela Leidel)

Chapter XXIX:

After leaving the farmer’s house he meets a man whom he wants to rob. In the course of the undertaking, the rogue gets shot in the leg and the victim’s horse gets killed. While searching the man, the rogue discovers him to be a woman. In the end she takes him to her place and they become friends.

===Chap. XXX, page 105-110===

The man stays at the robber women`s house for a while and she tells him about her life. How she was raised, that her father was a sword cutler and that she was taught how to fight with a sword. She tells him that she got married to an Innkeeper at the age of fifteen and how her husband treated her badly. She descided to become a robber and took revenge by stealing her husbands money and leaving him.
The man gets to know some of her robber friends and leaves after some days.

Chaper XXX:

The woman he has met tells him about her life. She is the daughter of a sword-cutler and has spent a lot of time in her father’s shop where she learnt how to handle a sword. At the age of 15 she married an inn-keeper, an insolent, imperious man who beat her. Since she didn’t have money she began to steal. She disguised herself by wearing men’s clothes. Finally, in order to take revenge, the woman robbed her husband and left. She gives the rogue the advice to treat women well because otherwise they will take revenge on him.

===Chap. XXXI, 111-117===

The man riding on his own again thinks a lot about the woman robber. He is impressed of the way she deceives her victims-she would put a cushion underneath her clothes, pretending to be pregnant. Men riding along would offer her a ride and when they reached a good place she would overwhelm them and take their possessions.
The man reaches an Inn and gets the information that a wealthy unarmed gentleman left the Inn an hour ago. The man stays for one drink only and rides after the gentleman.He finally reaches him and tells him to hand him his money. The gentleman, to the robbers surprise, is well armed and fires a pistol at him and attacks him with a sword. The robber is injured and the gentleman, a robber himself, takes away his money and his horse.He had tricked the robber through the unsuspecting Innkeeper.
The man takes the old horse from the gentleman-robber and rides to a town nearby.The people are very friendly and take care of him.The gentleman-robber is not found.

Chapter XXXI:

After leaving the woman he arrives at an inn where he wants to rest. However, the hastler keeps him from doing so by telling him about a rich man who has left a short while ago. The rogue is able to find the man but has to find out that the rich man is not an easy prey. He is able to fire at the rogue and escapes with the rogue’s money and the rogue’s horse. Left with his victim’s horse, the rogue is attacked by five or six rogues. He manages to escape and rests in an unknown place. Unfortunately, someone recognizes the rich man’s horse. One assumes that the rogue has murdered the rich gentleman and decides to hang him for the committed crime. However, the rogue is discharged when the rich gentleman appears.

===Chap. XXXII===

===Chap. XXXIII===

===Chap. XXXIV===

===Chap. XXXV===

===Chap. XXXVI===

===Chap. XXXVII===

===Chap. XXXVIII===
page 75 - 78 summary :

He walks down the street and notices a man with an interesting and very used wardrobe. He describes the man´s hat, doublet, cloak, breechea and skirts. He invites the man into an Ale-house an questions him about his stange outfit. He brings the man new clothes and walks with him in the streets.They see an easy to steal hogshead of wine. The man "hires" two or three more Rouges and they steal the hogshead at night.

page 94-102 summary:

He meets a young country girl while riding down a road and is amazed by her beauty.
He stays the night at her family´s house and pretends that he is very sick the next day so that he can stay longer. After beeing sick for about two weeks he asks the girls parents to let him marry her. They accept. Her father catches them naked and wants them to marry quickly.The man leaves unknown and sends the girl twenty pieces of gold and a poem.

===Chap. XXXIX===

===Chap. XL===

===Chap. XLI===

===Chap. XLII===

===Chap. XLIII===

===Chap. XLIV===

===Chap. XLV===

===Chap. XLVI===

===Chap. XLVII===

===Chap. XLVIII===

===Chap. XLIX===

===Chap. L===

===Chap. LI p.3-1===

===Chap. LII===

===Chap. LIII===

===Chap. LIV===

===Chap. LV===

===Chap. LVI===

===Chap. LVII===

===Chap. LVIII===

===Chap. LIX===

===Chap. LX===

===Chap. LXI===

===Chap. LXII===

===Chap. XIII===

===Chap. LXIV===

===Chap. LXV===

===Chap. LXVI===

===Chap. LXVII===

===Chap. LXVIII===

===Chap. LXIX===

===Chap. LXX===

===Chap. LXXI===

===Chap. LXXII===

===Chap. XXIII===

===Chap. XXIV===

===Chap. XXV===

===Chap. XXVI===

==Links==
*[Richard Head] ''The English rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant''. London: Francis Kirkman, 1666. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=15585368&FILE=../session/1210091335_12425&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=default EEBO] [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1666_Head_The_English_Rogue.pdf Anglistik Server Oldenburg]
*[A shortened cheap book version:] ''The life and death of the English rogue, or, His last legacy to the world.'' London, 1679. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=12253472&FILE=../session/1210087652_12132&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&DISPLAY=AUTHOR EEBO]

[[Category:17th century|1665]]
[[Category:1660s|1665]]
[[Category:By author|Head, Richard]]

Richard Head, English Rogue (1665)

2008-05-14T10:49:36Z

Drea: /* Chap. I */

We have three paginations and a continuous but slightly erratic chapter segmentation. I offer a pdf file at the end, you need however the anglistik Oldenburg login to access it. Get a pdf from eebo (use marked list to do that), if you have lost the password.

==Excerpt==

===Preface===
The protagonist is not named, the author does not want the protagonist to recognize himself. The story is a collection of narrations told by rouges. Any resemblance to other rouge storys are possible but not on purpose. But the story is not like a greek myth - it is based on facts rather than myths.

===Chap. I===
THe protagonists grandfather was a farmer who decided that his eldest son (protagonists father) should learn so long, till he could read any printed or written hand. But he plunged himself over head and heals in all manners of sensuality and at last was expelled from college and was forced to return to his father. After no long time a gentle (and wealthy) woman fell in love with him and got married. After her portion was spended the protagonists father had to work. The Protagonist about his life: "It was always my disposition rather to die by the hand of a common Executioner, than want my revenge, though ever so slightly grounded. ... Had I then died, no other guilt could have rendred me culpable before Gods Tribunal, but what was derivative before Adam."

===Chap. II===

===Chap. III===

===Chap. IV===

===Chap. V===

===Chap. VI===

===Chap. VII===

===Chap. VIII===

===Chap. IX===

===Chap. X===

===Chap. XI===

===Chap. XII p.100===

The protagonist goes to London, where he meets an acquaintance, who tells him the story of how he mistook his mistress’s laughter for signs of affection. He explains his love to her in a letter. She answers this letter with a note that she would leave her bed chamber open for him, so he could come to her. However, at night he accidentally tries to get into his master’s bed. After a short chase he is caught and whipped by his master, who then sends him to bed again. The man takes some bed sheets, ties them together and climbs out of the window to escape. As one of the knots slipped open, he fell down and felt like he had broken every bone. He finds a cobbler’s stall that had shortly been broken open, where he lies down to sleep. When the cobbler returns the next morning, he thinks that the man broke open his stall and therefore beats him up. Finally, the man gets the opportunity to explain, the cobbler feels pity and apologizes. They part.

At this point, the story returns to the protagonist and the other man still sitting in an ale house. They agree to change clothes, for some reason. Some people arrive who recognize the clothes the protagonist had stolen before. But as it is the other young man who wears these clothes, they arrest him instead.

Having no money, he hungers for some time, loosing weight so that he appears “like a walking skeleton” (p. 107). He goes to an inn, where he orders drink and food. As he wants to go to his chamber, the landlady asks for payment in advance, which he cannot offer. She refuses to bargain, so he tries to escape, but is caught, beaten up and his clothes are taken as payment. The next day he steals some bread from a baker. Later he goes to a restaurant, where he takes some food and ale right of the table of two gentlemen, but leaves before they act.

===Chap. XI p.2-1===

He meets a man who offers him good work on a merchant‘s ship and afterwards on the merchant’s plantation in Virginia. He is also offered food and lodging for the two days he has to wait until the ship arrives. But he knows that this is how galley slaves are taken. When he is taken from the lodging to the ship he manages to overturn the rowboat in which he was taken. He escapes and eventually ends up in the company and bed of a woman who felt sorry at the miserable sight of him.

===Chap. XII [2] p.2-8===

He turns to stealing as his new profession and steals a good cloak. Afterwards he gambles with some ordinary people and wins some good money. He then writes a letter to his former master that he regrets running away from him and begs his forgiveness. His master accepts this apology and lets him return into his service.

===Chap. XIII===

===Chap. XIV===

===Chap. XV===

===Chap. XVI===

===Chap. XVII===

===Chap. XVIII===

===Chap. XIX===

===Chap. XX===

===Chap. XXI===

===Chap. XXII===

===Chap. XXIII===

===Chap. XXIV===
The protagonist arrives in Ireland, near Dublin, having a new name. He’s got no possessions for the ship bringing those sunk. Difficulties to understand the Irish and their habits occur.

He takes a “coach” to Dublin which he describes as a place filled with mischief.

He finds a place to stay, has his hair cut off and gets a wig to be able to stay incognito. He’s got problems to got used to his new self.

When his Landlady demands payment, which he can’t give her, he tries to flatter her. This doesn’t help much and, partly by good luck, he finds her in bed with another man one day. In order to stay silent about this incidence he receives ten pounds.

===Chap. XXV===
He loses this money as soon as he received it, by gaming, and soon has to live from water and little food only. At the same time he tries hard to pretend to be living and eating as good as he used to. His stomach begins to act up, he can’t sleep, loses weight and looks like a “walking skeleton”.

===Chap. XXVI===
He happens to end up at a house where he meets “Mr.Doctor” who has a look at him and where an old lady takes care of him and offers him food which his body can’t hold onto for too long. Eventually though, he begins to get better for the lady feels sorry for his misery and makes sure he gets back to his former state. As payment though, he has to sleep with her.

===Chap. XXVII===
Being weary of the city he travels to the country. At a small river he meets a young woman who speaks Irish and whom he can’t understand yet she seems to want to lie with him. But at the last moment she cries out and he can hardly escape as he has to fight / is being chased by a couple of “fellows”. That night he sleepy in an Inn where he’s being treated badly as well. He gets horrible food and drinks which he only pretends to consume and he has to sleep near the animals. Tired of the bad treatment of the English by Irish country people he travels back to Dublin.

===Chap. XXVI p.2-83===

===Chap. XXVII p.2-87===

===Chap. XXVIII p.2-94===
Chapter XXVIII:

The rogue wants to rob a farmer’s house but falls in love with the farmer’s daughter. He meets her outside the farmer’s house. She tells her parents that he is a gentleman who doesn’t know the way and that he wants to stay for the night. With this excuse he gets into the farmer’s house. The next morning he seems to be ill and due to this illness he has an excuse to stay. During his stay of at least two weeks the rogue is visited by a few doctors. However, they cannot cure his disease. Meanwhile, the farmer’s daughter spends every evening at the visitor’s bedside. Being recovered, the rogue wants to compensate the farmer’s expenses by marrying his daughter. Still, he wants to know where the farmer keeps his money. The daughter tells him that her father doesn’t have any money in the house. Consequently, the rogue doesn’t want to stay any longer. He leaves and sends the daughter money and an accompanying letter which he explains his departure. He declares that he has taught her everything a woman should know - that he has enriched her mind.

===Chap. XXIX p.2-102===
Chapter XXIX page 79-83 summary:

The same night the man hears that his Landlady is very sick and that she wants to see him. But when he reaches her place she has already died. He takes her hand and finds ten pieces of gold in it and puts them secretly into his pocket. He stayes another two or three days in her house and returns to his new friend who tries to persuade him to commit another crime with him. The man refuses and they part in anger.His friend is caught and is sentenced to death. He visits him in prison and they have a discussion about God. A couple of days later he watches his friends execution.
(Manuela Leidel)

Chapter XXIX page 102-105 Summary:

After leaving the country girl he stops an an Inn.In the evening he continues his trip and meets an armed gentleman along the way.They get into a fight and kill eachothers horses. He manages to get on top of the other man an wants to steal his money. He finds no gold underneath the clothes but breasts. The gentleman is a woman. A robber woman. She takes him to her place and they become friends.
(Manuela Leidel)

Chapter XXIX:

After leaving the farmer’s house he meets a man whom he wants to rob. In the course of the undertaking, the rogue gets shot in the leg and the victim’s horse gets killed. While searching the man, the rogue discovers him to be a woman. In the end she takes him to her place and they become friends.

===Chap. XXX, page 105-110===

The man stays at the robber women`s house for a while and she tells him about her life. How she was raised, that her father was a sword cutler and that she was taught how to fight with a sword. She tells him that she got married to an Innkeeper at the age of fifteen and how her husband treated her badly. She descided to become a robber and took revenge by stealing her husbands money and leaving him.
The man gets to know some of her robber friends and leaves after some days.

Chaper XXX:

The woman he has met tells him about her life. She is the daughter of a sword-cutler and has spent a lot of time in her father’s shop where she learnt how to handle a sword. At the age of 15 she married an inn-keeper, an insolent, imperious man who beat her. Since she didn’t have money she began to steal. She disguised herself by wearing men’s clothes. Finally, in order to take revenge, the woman robbed her husband and left. She gives the rogue the advice to treat women well because otherwise they will take revenge on him.

===Chap. XXXI, 111-117===

The man riding on his own again thinks a lot about the woman robber. He is impressed of the way she deceives her victims-she would put a cushion underneath her clothes, pretending to be pregnant. Men riding along would offer her a ride and when they reached a good place she would overwhelm them and take their possessions.
The man reaches an Inn and gets the information that a wealthy unarmed gentleman left the Inn an hour ago. The man stays for one drink only and rides after the gentleman.He finally reaches him and tells him to hand him his money. The gentleman, to the robbers surprise, is well armed and fires a pistol at him and attacks him with a sword. The robber is injured and the gentleman, a robber himself, takes away his money and his horse.He had tricked the robber through the unsuspecting Innkeeper.
The man takes the old horse from the gentleman-robber and rides to a town nearby.The people are very friendly and take care of him.The gentleman-robber is not found.

Chapter XXXI:

After leaving the woman he arrives at an inn where he wants to rest. However, the hastler keeps him from doing so by telling him about a rich man who has left a short while ago. The rogue is able to find the man but has to find out that the rich man is not an easy prey. He is able to fire at the rogue and escapes with the rogue’s money and the rogue’s horse. Left with his victim’s horse, the rogue is attacked by five or six rogues. He manages to escape and rests in an unknown place. Unfortunately, someone recognizes the rich man’s horse. One assumes that the rogue has murdered the rich gentleman and decides to hang him for the committed crime. However, the rogue is discharged when the rich gentleman appears.

===Chap. XXXII===

===Chap. XXXIII===

===Chap. XXXIV===

===Chap. XXXV===

===Chap. XXXVI===

===Chap. XXXVII===

===Chap. XXXVIII===
page 75 - 78 summary :

He walks down the street and notices a man with an interesting and very used wardrobe. He describes the man´s hat, doublet, cloak, breechea and skirts. He invites the man into an Ale-house an questions him about his stange outfit. He brings the man new clothes and walks with him in the streets.They see an easy to steal hogshead of wine. The man "hires" two or three more Rouges and they steal the hogshead at night.

page 94-102 summary:

He meets a young country girl while riding down a road and is amazed by her beauty.
He stays the night at her family´s house and pretends that he is very sick the next day so that he can stay longer. After beeing sick for about two weeks he asks the girls parents to let him marry her. They accept. Her father catches them naked and wants them to marry quickly.The man leaves unknown and sends the girl twenty pieces of gold and a poem.

===Chap. XXXIX===

===Chap. XL===

===Chap. XLI===

===Chap. XLII===

===Chap. XLIII===

===Chap. XLIV===

===Chap. XLV===

===Chap. XLVI===

===Chap. XLVII===

===Chap. XLVIII===

===Chap. XLIX===

===Chap. L===

===Chap. LI p.3-1===

===Chap. LII===

===Chap. LIII===

===Chap. LIV===

===Chap. LV===

===Chap. LVI===

===Chap. LVII===

===Chap. LVIII===

===Chap. LIX===

===Chap. LX===

===Chap. LXI===

===Chap. LXII===

===Chap. XIII===

===Chap. LXIV===

===Chap. LXV===

===Chap. LXVI===

===Chap. LXVII===

===Chap. LXVIII===

===Chap. LXIX===

===Chap. LXX===

===Chap. LXXI===

===Chap. LXXII===

===Chap. XXIII===

===Chap. XXIV===

===Chap. XXV===

===Chap. XXVI===

==Links==
*[Richard Head] ''The English rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant''. London: Francis Kirkman, 1666. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=15585368&FILE=../session/1210091335_12425&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=default EEBO] [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1666_Head_The_English_Rogue.pdf Anglistik Server Oldenburg]
*[A shortened cheap book version:] ''The life and death of the English rogue, or, His last legacy to the world.'' London, 1679. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=12253472&FILE=../session/1210087652_12132&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&DISPLAY=AUTHOR EEBO]

[[Category:17th century|1665]]
[[Category:1660s|1665]]
[[Category:By author|Head, Richard]]

Richard Head, English Rogue (1665)

2008-05-14T10:07:17Z

Drea: /* Preface */

We have three paginations and a continuous but slightly erratic chapter segmentation. I offer a pdf file at the end, you need however the anglistik Oldenburg login to access it. Get a pdf from eebo (use marked list to do that), if you have lost the password.

==Excerpt==

===Preface===
The protagonist is not named, the author does not want the protagonist to recognize himself. The story is a collection of narrations told by rouges. Any resemblance to other rouge storys are possible but not on purpose. But the story is not like a greek myth - it is based on facts rather than myths.

===Chap. I===

===Chap. II===

===Chap. III===

===Chap. IV===

===Chap. V===

===Chap. VI===

===Chap. VII===

===Chap. VIII===

===Chap. IX===

===Chap. X===

===Chap. XI===

===Chap. XII p.100===

The protagonist goes to London, where he meets an acquaintance, who tells him the story of how he mistook his mistress’s laughter for signs of affection. He explains his love to her in a letter. She answers this letter with a note that she would leave her bed chamber open for him, so he could come to her. However, at night he accidentally tries to get into his master’s bed. After a short chase he is caught and whipped by his master, who then sends him to bed again. The man takes some bed sheets, ties them together and climbs out of the window to escape. As one of the knots slipped open, he fell down and felt like he had broken every bone. He finds a cobbler’s stall that had shortly been broken open, where he lies down to sleep. When the cobbler returns the next morning, he thinks that the man broke open his stall and therefore beats him up. Finally, the man gets the opportunity to explain, the cobbler feels pity and apologizes. They part.

At this point, the story returns to the protagonist and the other man still sitting in an ale house. They agree to change clothes, for some reason. Some people arrive who recognize the clothes the protagonist had stolen before. But as it is the other young man who wears these clothes, they arrest him instead.

Having no money, he hungers for some time, loosing weight so that he appears “like a walking skeleton” (p. 107). He goes to an inn, where he orders drink and food. As he wants to go to his chamber, the landlady asks for payment in advance, which he cannot offer. She refuses to bargain, so he tries to escape, but is caught, beaten up and his clothes are taken as payment. The next day he steals some bread from a baker. Later he goes to a restaurant, where he takes some food and ale right of the table of two gentlemen, but leaves before they act.

===Chap. XI p.2-1===

He meets a man who offers him good work on a merchant‘s ship and afterwards on the merchant’s plantation in Virginia. He is also offered food and lodging for the two days he has to wait until the ship arrives. But he knows that this is how galley slaves are taken. When he is taken from the lodging to the ship he manages to overturn the rowboat in which he was taken. He escapes and eventually ends up in the company and bed of a woman who felt sorry at the miserable sight of him.

===Chap. XII [2] p.2-8===

He turns to stealing as his new profession and steals a good cloak. Afterwards he gambles with some ordinary people and wins some good money. He then writes a letter to his former master that he regrets running away from him and begs his forgiveness. His master accepts this apology and lets him return into his service.

===Chap. XIII===

===Chap. XIV===

===Chap. XV===

===Chap. XVI===

===Chap. XVII===

===Chap. XVIII===

===Chap. XIX===

===Chap. XX===

===Chap. XXI===

===Chap. XXII===

===Chap. XXIII===

===Chap. XXIV===
The protagonist arrives in Ireland, near Dublin, having a new name. He’s got no possessions for the ship bringing those sunk. Difficulties to understand the Irish and their habits occur.

He takes a “coach” to Dublin which he describes as a place filled with mischief.

He finds a place to stay, has his hair cut off and gets a wig to be able to stay incognito. He’s got problems to got used to his new self.

When his Landlady demands payment, which he can’t give her, he tries to flatter her. This doesn’t help much and, partly by good luck, he finds her in bed with another man one day. In order to stay silent about this incidence he receives ten pounds.

===Chap. XXV===
He loses this money as soon as he received it, by gaming, and soon has to live from water and little food only. At the same time he tries hard to pretend to be living and eating as good as he used to. His stomach begins to act up, he can’t sleep, loses weight and looks like a “walking skeleton”.

===Chap. XXVI===
He happens to end up at a house where he meets “Mr.Doctor” who has a look at him and where an old lady takes care of him and offers him food which his body can’t hold onto for too long. Eventually though, he begins to get better for the lady feels sorry for his misery and makes sure he gets back to his former state. As payment though, he has to sleep with her.

===Chap. XXVII===
Being weary of the city he travels to the country. At a small river he meets a young woman who speaks Irish and whom he can’t understand yet she seems to want to lie with him. But at the last moment she cries out and he can hardly escape as he has to fight / is being chased by a couple of “fellows”. That night he sleepy in an Inn where he’s being treated badly as well. He gets horrible food and drinks which he only pretends to consume and he has to sleep near the animals. Tired of the bad treatment of the English by Irish country people he travels back to Dublin.

===Chap. XXVI p.2-83===

===Chap. XXVII p.2-87===

===Chap. XXVIII p.2-94===
Chapter XXVIII:

The rogue wants to rob a farmer’s house but falls in love with the farmer’s daughter. He meets her outside the farmer’s house. She tells her parents that he is a gentleman who doesn’t know the way and that he wants to stay for the night. With this excuse he gets into the farmer’s house. The next morning he seems to be ill and due to this illness he has an excuse to stay. During his stay of at least two weeks the rogue is visited by a few doctors. However, they cannot cure his disease. Meanwhile, the farmer’s daughter spends every evening at the visitor’s bedside. Being recovered, the rogue wants to compensate the farmer’s expenses by marrying his daughter. Still, he wants to know where the farmer keeps his money. The daughter tells him that her father doesn’t have any money in the house. Consequently, the rogue doesn’t want to stay any longer. He leaves and sends the daughter money and an accompanying letter which he explains his departure. He declares that he has taught her everything a woman should know - that he has enriched her mind.

===Chap. XXIX p.2-102===
Chapter XXIX page 79-83 summary:

The same night the man hears that his Landlady is very sick and that she wants to see him. But when he reaches her place she has already died. He takes her hand and finds ten pieces of gold in it and puts them secretly into his pocket. He stayes another two or three days in her house and returns to his new friend who tries to persuade him to commit another crime with him. The man refuses and they part in anger.His friend is caught and is sentenced to death. He visits him in prison and they have a discussion about God. A couple of days later he watches his friends execution.
(Manuela Leidel)

Chapter XXIX page 102-105 Summary:

After leaving the country girl he stops an an Inn.In the evening he continues his trip and meets an armed gentleman along the way.They get into a fight and kill eachothers horses. He manages to get on top of the other man an wants to steal his money. He finds no gold underneath the clothes but breasts. The gentleman is a woman. A robber woman. She takes him to her place and they become friends.
(Manuela Leidel)

Chapter XXIX:

After leaving the farmer’s house he meets a man whom he wants to rob. In the course of the undertaking, the rogue gets shot in the leg and the victim’s horse gets killed. While searching the man, the rogue discovers him to be a woman. In the end she takes him to her place and they become friends.

===Chap. XXX, page 105-110===

The man stays at the robber women`s house for a while and she tells him about her life. How she was raised, that her father was a sword cutler and that she was taught how to fight with a sword. She tells him that she got married to an Innkeeper at the age of fifteen and how her husband treated her badly. She descided to become a robber and took revenge by stealing her husbands money and leaving him.
The man gets to know some of her robber friends and leaves after some days.

Chaper XXX:

The woman he has met tells him about her life. She is the daughter of a sword-cutler and has spent a lot of time in her father’s shop where she learnt how to handle a sword. At the age of 15 she married an inn-keeper, an insolent, imperious man who beat her. Since she didn’t have money she began to steal. She disguised herself by wearing men’s clothes. Finally, in order to take revenge, the woman robbed her husband and left. She gives the rogue the advice to treat women well because otherwise they will take revenge on him.

===Chap. XXXI, 111-117===

The man riding on his own again thinks a lot about the woman robber. He is impressed of the way she deceives her victims-she would put a cushion underneath her clothes, pretending to be pregnant. Men riding along would offer her a ride and when they reached a good place she would overwhelm them and take their possessions.
The man reaches an Inn and gets the information that a wealthy unarmed gentleman left the Inn an hour ago. The man stays for one drink only and rides after the gentleman.He finally reaches him and tells him to hand him his money. The gentleman, to the robbers surprise, is well armed and fires a pistol at him and attacks him with a sword. The robber is injured and the gentleman, a robber himself, takes away his money and his horse.He had tricked the robber through the unsuspecting Innkeeper.
The man takes the old horse from the gentleman-robber and rides to a town nearby.The people are very friendly and take care of him.The gentleman-robber is not found.

Chapter XXXI:

After leaving the woman he arrives at an inn where he wants to rest. However, the hastler keeps him from doing so by telling him about a rich man who has left a short while ago. The rogue is able to find the man but has to find out that the rich man is not an easy prey. He is able to fire at the rogue and escapes with the rogue’s money and the rogue’s horse. Left with his victim’s horse, the rogue is attacked by five or six rogues. He manages to escape and rests in an unknown place. Unfortunately, someone recognizes the rich man’s horse. One assumes that the rogue has murdered the rich gentleman and decides to hang him for the committed crime. However, the rogue is discharged when the rich gentleman appears.

===Chap. XXXII===

===Chap. XXXIII===

===Chap. XXXIV===

===Chap. XXXV===

===Chap. XXXVI===

===Chap. XXXVII===

===Chap. XXXVIII===
page 75 - 78 summary :

He walks down the street and notices a man with an interesting and very used wardrobe. He describes the man´s hat, doublet, cloak, breechea and skirts. He invites the man into an Ale-house an questions him about his stange outfit. He brings the man new clothes and walks with him in the streets.They see an easy to steal hogshead of wine. The man "hires" two or three more Rouges and they steal the hogshead at night.

page 94-102 summary:

He meets a young country girl while riding down a road and is amazed by her beauty.
He stays the night at her family´s house and pretends that he is very sick the next day so that he can stay longer. After beeing sick for about two weeks he asks the girls parents to let him marry her. They accept. Her father catches them naked and wants them to marry quickly.The man leaves unknown and sends the girl twenty pieces of gold and a poem.

===Chap. XXXIX===

===Chap. XL===

===Chap. XLI===

===Chap. XLII===

===Chap. XLIII===

===Chap. XLIV===

===Chap. XLV===

===Chap. XLVI===

===Chap. XLVII===

===Chap. XLVIII===

===Chap. XLIX===

===Chap. L===

===Chap. LI p.3-1===

===Chap. LII===

===Chap. LIII===

===Chap. LIV===

===Chap. LV===

===Chap. LVI===

===Chap. LVII===

===Chap. LVIII===

===Chap. LIX===

===Chap. LX===

===Chap. LXI===

===Chap. LXII===

===Chap. XIII===

===Chap. LXIV===

===Chap. LXV===

===Chap. LXVI===

===Chap. LXVII===

===Chap. LXVIII===

===Chap. LXIX===

===Chap. LXX===

===Chap. LXXI===

===Chap. LXXII===

===Chap. XXIII===

===Chap. XXIV===

===Chap. XXV===

===Chap. XXVI===

==Links==
*[Richard Head] ''The English rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant''. London: Francis Kirkman, 1666. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=15585368&FILE=../session/1210091335_12425&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=config.cfg&DISPLAY=default EEBO] [http://www.uni-oldenburg.de/anglistik/lit-wiss/intro-to-literature/d/1666_Head_The_English_Rogue.pdf Anglistik Server Oldenburg]
*[A shortened cheap book version:] ''The life and death of the English rogue, or, His last legacy to the world.'' London, 1679. [http://eebo.chadwyck.com/search/full_rec?SOURCE=pgimages.cfg&ACTION=ByID&ID=12253472&FILE=../session/1210087652_12132&SEARCHSCREEN=CITATIONS&SEARCHCONFIG=var_spell.cfg&DISPLAY=AUTHOR EEBO]

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