Law at the movies : turning legal doctrine into art / Stanley Fish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fish, Stanley Eugene, author.

Series:

Law and literature.

Oxford scholarship online.

Law and literature

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Stanley Fish focuses on well-known movies (such as Anatomy of a Murder, Twelve Angry Men, or A Man for All Seasons) that take law as their subject, and explains how legal doctrine is made into the stuff of plot and character. A book for movie lovers written in an accessible and engaging style.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Introduction: It's Against the Law

1 Liberal Heroism and Reasonable Doubt: 12 Angry Men

2 The Law as Blind Machine: The Wrong Man

3 The Law Emerges from Violence: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and High Noon

4 The Law as the Object of Manipulation: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and Witness for the Prosecution

5 Natural Law versus Positive Law: Judgment at Nuremberg

6 The Law's Dogma and Religious Dogma: Inherit the Wind

7 Visible and Spectral Evidence: The Crucible

8 Man-Made Law as a Refuge from Both the Devil's Assaults and God's Commands: A Man for All Seasons

9 Law as Craft: Anatomy of a Murder

10 Sex, Class, and Class Action: North Country

11 Speech, Radical Innocence, and the Law: Billy Budd

12 The Law and Storytelling: Amistad

13 Free Speech for Good or Ill: The People vs Larry Flynt and Absence of Malice

14 Poetry Is Against the Law: Howl

Conclusion: No More Delivered than Promised

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 16, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Fish, Stanley Eugene. Law at the movies.

ISBN:

0-19-889874-6

0-19-199979-2

0-19-889873-8

OCLC:

1414975101