Exploring State Society Relationships Through Prison and Film

Exploring State Society Relationships Through Prison and Film Speaker: Prof. Nunn Date: 1 February 2024 Structure - Methodology: • - Prison and Film: Between the material and the symbolic • - Questioning 'Spot the difference' Collaboration and critique Conclusions Spot The Difference - Bad and 'Lombrosian' images (González 2021) - Academic lawyers focused on whether a 'film should be regarded as constituting a 'good' or 'bad' representation of the law' (Wilson and O'Sullivan 2005) Similarity Scandals - Why is it trending?' • 'The Marginal': Because of those reminded of the series by events in Devoto' • Pantera: The prisoner who became a meme Prison in Film -> Prison and Film - 'Prison is not a building "over there" but a set of relationships that undermine rather than stabilize everyday lives everywhere' (Gilmore 2007, 242) Collaboration and Critique - Verdades ocultas/Hidden Truths (2017) - Apenas un delincuente (Fregonese 1949) - El sacrificio de Nehuén Puyelli/The Sacrifice of Nehuén Puyelli (2017) Outside the Law (Romero 1937) - Lumiton dedicates this film to: the victims of the fight against crime, to those who gave their lives in defense of society, to the police workers fallen in the line of duty. - We are especially grateful for the collaboration of the Government Ministry of the Province of Buenos Aires for their collaboration in this film. Thanks to the efforts of the current authorities, their police force and support for abandoned youths demonstrate a high level of technical organization, discipline, and efficiency. Criminological Critique Vs Police Plague - The 'cinematographization' of kidnap reports (Caimari 2004) Leonera/Lion's Den (Trapero 2000) - Law 24.660 • - Law 26.472 • - (Children under 5 with mother in prison) (Pregnant women and mothers of children under 5 considered for house arrest) Carceral motherhood in Leonera as 'a catalyst for hope and personal transformation' (Bouclin 2021) Legal Trials vs Carceral Legislation vs Economic Distribution - Best Interests of the Child - Rights legislation vs realization (Malacalza 2015) - Legal morality Conclusions - State heterogeneity as the object and condition of critique - Description => Explanation - Prison => Imprisonment