La gabbia è piena. Orange is the New Black e il Complesso Carcerario Industriale
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2019.i14.418Abstract
Valeria Gennero’s “The Cage is Full” focuses on the role played by the Tv series Orange is the New Black (2013-2019), created by Jenji Kohan, in the dissemination of the term Prison-Industrial Complex in contemporary U.S. debates about racism and American identity. This essay argues that Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow (2010) was a crucial influence on the intersectional framework of Kohan’s TV project, which is characterized by an innovative reading of the growing privatization of the U.S. prison system.References
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Cecil, Dawn K. “Looking Beyond Caged Heat: Media Images of Women in Prison.” Feminist Criminology 2.4
(2007): 304-326.
Columbus, Louis. “10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective of Netflix’s Massive Success in The Cloud.”
Forbes 12 luglio 2018. https://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2018/07/12/10-charts-that-willchange-your-perspective-of-netflixs-massive-success-in-the-cloud/. Tutti i siti visitati il 15 luglio 2019.
Davies, Angela. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry. The Angela Y.
Davis Reader. A cura di Joy James. New York: Blackwell, 1998. 61-73.
Dodge, Calvert, a cura di. A Nation Without Prisons: Alternatives to Incarceration. Lexington: Lexington
Books, 1975.
Doty, Roxanne L. ed Elizabeth S. Wheatley. “Private Detention and the Immigration Industrial Complex.”
International Political Sociology 7.4 (2013): 426-443.
Fernández-Morales, Marta e María Isabel Menéndez-Menéndez. “‘When in Rome, Use What You’ve Got:’ A
Discussion of Female Agency through Orange Is the New Black.” Television & New Media 17.6
(2016): 534-546.
Gennero, Valeria. “Cicatrici: crimine e comunità in Orange Is the New Black.” Raccontare il viaggio. Crimini
di migrazione e narrazioni di resistenza. A cura di Nicoletta Di Ciolla, Anna Pasolini e Nicoletta
Vallorani. Milano: Mimesis, 2018. 147-169.
Higueras Ruiz, María José e Francisco Javier Gómez Pérez. “La impronta del showrunner en las series de
ficción televisiva: El caso de Jenji Kohan.” ZER - Revista de Estudios de Comunicación 22.43 (2017):
219-236. https://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/Zer/article/view/17822.
Hill, Marc Lamont. Nobody: America’s War on Its Vulnerable from Ferguson to Baltimore, Before and
Beyond. New York: Atria Books, 2016.
Jenner, Mareike. Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Kerman, Piper. Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2010.Kilgore, James. Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our
Time. New York: The New Press, 2015.
Kohan, Jenji. “‘Orange’ Creator Jenji Kohan: ‘Piper Was My Trojan Horse’.” Intervista a cura di Terry Gross.
Fresh Air. NPR, 13 agosto 2013. www.npr.org/2013/08/13/211639989/orange-creator-jenji-kohanpiper-was-my-trojan-horse.
---, showrunner. Orange Is the New Black. Tilted Productions, Lions Gate Television, 2013-2019.
---, showrunner. Weeds. Tilted Productions, Lions Gate Television, Weeds Productions, 2005-2012.
McDonald, Kevin e Daniel Smith-Rowsey, a cura di. The Netflix Effect: Technology and Entertainment in the
21st Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Moore, Anne. “Anatomy of a Binge: Abject Intimacy and the Televised Form.” Feminist Perspectives on
Orange Is the New Black:Thirteen Critical Essays. A cura di April Kalogeropoulos Householder e
Adrienne M. Trier-Bieniek. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2016.
Morris, Julia. “In the Market of Morality: International Human Rights Standards and the Immigration Detention
Improvement Complex.” Intimate Economies: Critical Perspectives on Immigration Detention. A cura di
Deirdre Conlon e Nancy Hiemstra. London: Routledge, 2016.
Pallotta, Frank. “Netflix Added Record Number of Subscribers, but Warns of Tougher Times Ahead.” CNN
Business 17 aprile 2019. https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/16/media/netflix-earnings-2019-firstquarter/index.html.
Scarpino, Cinzia. “Breaking Back: uno sguardo dal passato, ovvero, note per una genealogia. 1. Back to the
Seventies.” Ácoma 19.3 (inverno 2012): 7-16.
Schlosser, Eric. “The Prison-Industrial Complex.” The Atlantic dicembre 1998.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/12/the-prison-industrial-complex/304669.
Schwartz, Joel. “The Penitentiary and Perfectibility in Tocqueville.” The Western Political Quarterly 38.1
(1985): 7-26.
The Sentencing Project: Research and Advocacy for Women. “Incarcerated Women and Girls.” June 2019.
https://www.sentencingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Incarcerated-Women-and-Girls.pdf.
Spektor, Regina. “You’ve Got Time.” in Orange Is the New Black (Music from the Original Series). Universal
Music Enterprises, 2014.
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay e Astead W. Herndon. “‘Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass
Incarceration.” The New York Times 25 giugno 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/joebiden-crime-laws.html.
Wacquant, Loïc. “Foreword: Probing the Meta-Prison.” The Globalization of Supermax Prisons. A cura di
Jeffrey Ian Ross. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2013. ix-xiv.
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