Law on the Screen / ed. by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Douglas, Lawrence, Contributor.
• Douglas, Lawrence, Editor.
• Kamir, Orit, Contributor.
• Mnookin, Jennifer L., Contributor.
• Sarat, Austin, Contributor.
• Sarat, Austin, Editor.
• Shapiro, Michael J., Contributor.
• Sherwin, Richard K., Contributor.
• Smoodin, Eric, Contributor.
• Umphrey, Martha Merrill, Contributor.
• Umphrey, Martha Merrill, Editor.
• Waldman, Diane, Contributor.

Series:

• The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important as are other early twenty-first-century social forces—e.g. globalization, neo-colonialism, and human rights—in shaping and transforming legal life. Yet scholars have only recently begun to examine how law works in this new arena and to explore the consequences of the representation of law in the moving image. Law on the Screen advances our understanding of the connection between law and film by analyzing them as narrative forms, examining film for its jurisprudential content—that is, its ways of critiquing the present legal world and imagining an alternative one—and expanding studies of the representation of law in film to include questions of reception.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Contributors
• On Film and Law: Broadening the Focus
• PART I Studies of Representation
• Cinematic Judgment and Jurisprudence: A Woman's Memory, Recovery, and Justice in a Post-Traumatic Society (A Study of Polanski's Death and the Maiden)
• The Racial-Spatial Order and the Law: Devil in a Blue Dress
• Anti-Oedipus, Lynch: Initiatory Rites and the Ordeal of Justice
• PART II Studies of Reception
• Reproducing a Trial: Evidence and Its Assessment in Paradise Lost
• A Case for Corrective Criticism: A Civil Action
• "Everyone Went Wild over It": Film Audiences, Political Cinema, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)

ISBN:

• 9780804767675
• 080476767X