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Framed : women in law and film / Orit Kamir.
HeinOnline Business and Legal Aspects of Sports and Entertainment (BLASE) Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamir, Orit, 1961-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in motion pictures.
- Sex discrimination in motion pictures.
- Legal films--History and criticism.
- Legal films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Theorizes the emerging field at the intersection of law and film through a detailed, feminist analysis of masterpiece films about law from around the world.
- Contents:
- Rashomon : construction of woman as guilty object
- Pandora's box : exorcising Pandora-Lilith in the Weimar Republic
- Blackmail : Hitchcock's sound and the new woman's guilty silence
- Anatomy of a murder: Hollywood's hero-lawyer revives the unwritten law
- Adam's rib : Hollywood's female lawyer and family values
- Nuts : the mad woman's day in court
- Death and the maiden : challenging trauma with feminine judgment and justice
- A question of silence : feminist community as revolution (read against "a jury of her peers")
- Set it off : minority women at the point of no return
- High heels : Almodovar's postmodern transgression.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613022332
- 9781283022330
- 1283022338
- 9780822387763
- 082238776X
- OCLC:
- 220950985
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