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From: Phil Ryan <pryan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 21:33:18 -0400
Lionel Boxer wrote:
> I was watching a recent French production of Les Miserables.
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> 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?
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> Perhaps that is what Les Miserables is all about(?)
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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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