Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:33:18 -0400 From: Phil Ryan <pryan-AT-ccs.carleton.ca> Subject: Re: Gaze Lionel Boxer wrote: > I was watching a recent French production of Les Miserables. > > When being released form prison, the leach character was given a passport that was printed on not white, but yellow paper. > He even says to the prison governor that the yellow passport would mean that would always be an ex-convict - that theme > was repeated throughout the film. Would I be correct is saying that this is an extention of the judicial gaze? > > Perhaps that is what Les Miserables is all about(?) > One of the demands of the GIP with which Foucault was involved was for the abolition of the police record [casier judiciaire], as it condemns ex-prisoners to poverty and unemployment. [D+E, 2:197] Phil Ryan > >
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