The genre, I believe, is misunderstood and suffers from an overall apathy or misinterpretation of prison realities.
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Everybody has seen a movie that would fall within its flexible parameters of definition, and yet the concept is a little unnerving. The “Prison Movie” belongs to an undefined genre. Big, Murder In The First (1994), Numbered Men (1930), Papillon (1973), Paul Mason, Porridge (1978), Prison Break (1938), Prison Movies, Prison Town, Riot In Cell Block Eleven (1954), Road Gang (1936), San Quentin (1937), Scum (1983) Lock Up (1989), Silent Scream (1990) We're No Angels (1955), Sleepers (1996), The Big Bird Cage (1972), The Big Doll's House (1971), The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Criminal Code (1931), The Hoose Gow (1929), The Ladies They Talk About (1933), The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (1962), The Mean Machine (1974), The Pot Carriers (1962), The Shawshank Redemption (1995), There Was A Crooked Man, Two Way Stretch (1960), Up the Ridge, Wedlock (1990), Women In Cages (1972) | by petebrook | 4 comments In Activist Art, Opinion, Prison Non-Photography, Words | Tags: A Man For All Seasons, Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), Blackwell's Island (1939), Breakout (1975), Brute Force (1947), Chained Heat (1992), Cool Hand Luke (1962), Crashout (1955), Dead Man Walking (1995), Genre, Gray Days, Hell's Highway (1932), I Am A Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), In Prison My Whole Life, In The Name Of The Father (1994), Jailhouse Rock (1957), Lock Up (1989), Making the River, McVicar (1980), Men Without Souls (1940), Midnight Express (1978), Mr. Wednesday Words: Paul Mason on Prison Movies