Tattooed Tears
A disturbing and moving look at life in a Youth Authority Prison in Chino, California. Broomfield and Churchill's “sequel” to Juvenile Liaison raises structural and institutional problems of the US penal system. The workings of a purportedly liberal penal institution are condemned through an in...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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Lafayette Film
1978
United Kingdom |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:40dbf337-63f9-4a17-a021-29505583d376 |
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| author2 | Broomfield, Nick Churchill, Joan |
| author_facet | Broomfield, Nick Churchill, Joan |
| collection | OSA Film Library |
| dateSpan | 1978 |
| description | A disturbing and moving look at life in a Youth Authority Prison in Chino, California. Broomfield and Churchill's “sequel” to Juvenile Liaison raises structural and institutional problems of the US penal system. The workings of a purportedly liberal penal institution are condemned through an intensely dramatic concentration on four of its victims, aged 17-21, ostensibly there for rehabilitation, but actually undergoing repetitive and vindictive punishment. In the process, the film presents the spectre of individual sufferings; one inmate who dramatizes his resistance specifically for the camera receives humiliating treatment which the filmmakers duly observe but cannot forestall. A raw depiction of a dehumanizing penal system that crushes the hopes and dreams of at-risk teenagers. |
| genre | libraryUnit |
| geographic | Great Britain |
| id | bulk_F9C336EA-272D-408E-8DCE-8E89CF70CD09 |
| institution | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| language | English |
| publishDate | 1978 |
| publisher | Lafayette Film United Kingdom |
| spellingShingle | Tattooed Tears [Documentary film] |
| title | Tattooed Tears |
| topic | [Documentary film] |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:40dbf337-63f9-4a17-a021-29505583d376 |