The celluloid courtroom : a history of legal cinema / Ross D. Levi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levi, Ross D., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures.

Lawyers in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like them to be. The idealized courtroom of many legal movies tells us a great deal about what we think of our justice system and what we want it to reflect about America, but the films in the genre vary widely in how they do this. From To Kill a Mockingbird to Liar, Liar, from A Time to Kill to Twelve Angry Men, we see certain stereotypes repeating themselves again and again: the judge as stern referee,

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Making the Case; 1. The State versus...: The Client; 2. All Rise: The Judge; 3. Trial of One's Peers: The Jury; 4. Shysters and Saints: The Lawyer; Conclusion: Summary judgment; Appendix: Order in the Court; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400624056

9786612404498

9781282404496

1282404490

9780313013706

0313013705

OCLC:

61773241

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9798400624056