Film and the Law

The Cinema of Justice
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84113-725-4
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Described by Richard Sherwin of New York Law School as the law and film movement's 'founding text', this text is a second, heavily revised and improved edition of the original Film and the Law (Cavendish Publishing, 2001). The book is distinctive in a number of ways: it is unique as a sustained book-length exposition on law and film by law scholars; it is distinctive within law and film scholarship in its attempt to plot the parameters of a distinctive genre of law films; its examination of law in film as place and space offers a new way out of the law film genre problem, and also offers an examination of representations of an aspect of legal practice, and legal institutions, that have not been addressed by other scholars. It is original in its contribution to work within the wider parameters of law and popular culture and offers a sustained challenge to traditional legal scholarship, amply demonstrating the practical and the pedagogic, as well as the moral and political significance of popular cultural representations of law.

The book is a valuable teaching and learning resource, and is the first in the field to serve as a basic guidebook for students of law and film.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robson, Peter

Osborn, Guy

Greenfield, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Film and the Law: an Orientation

Law and Film Scholarship

Methodology

Language

Empirical Work and Causation

The Heterogeneous Goals of Law and Popular Culture

2. The Penetration of Law and Film

The Framework of Legal Education

Law and Context-the Role of the Socio-legal Imagination

Popular Culture and Law and Popular Culture

The Use(s) of Film

Film and Law Teaching

Law and Film Courses

3. Theoretical underpinnings and physical boundaries-defining the territory

The Dramatic Dimension of Law

Visuality and Image

The Cult of the Robe: Dress and Appearance in Film

Defining the Parameters of Law and Film: Academic Approaches

Inside the Courtroom

The Phases of Law

Conclusion

4. Strictly Courtroom? Law Film and Genre

Critical Aspects of the Courtroom Drama
Laughing at the Law

5. The British Law Film: From Genre to Iconography

Britishness and Film: Protection and Representations

British Law Films

The Iconography of Law

Conclusion

6. Military Justice on Screen

Filming Military Justice

The Scapegoat

The Courtroom Drama in Uniform

Justice and Legality in the Military Context

Conclusion

7. Assessing Cinematic Lawyers (I): Heroes and Villains

The Heroic Lawyer: When Atticus Met Lincoln

Flawed Characters?

Assessing the Good/Bad Categories

8. Assessing Cinematic Lawyers (II): Alternative Categorisations

Introduction

Alternative Categorisations

Conclusion

9. Missing (in) Action (I): Judges
The Invisible Judge

The Corrupt Judge

The Troubled Judge

The Comic Judge

The Political Judge

Judges as Protagonists-the Judge under the Spotlight

10. Missing in Action (II): Juries

The Importance of the Jury

Jury Selection

Jury Deliberation

The Compensatory Jury

Conclusion

11. Fact, Fiction and the Cinema of Justice (I): Presumed Accurate?

Facts, Cases and Lawyers

Documentary Films

Developments in the 21st Century

Who Owns History?

Whose Story?

Conclusion

12. Fact, Fiction and the Cinema of Justice (II): Specificities
Common Themes

13. Love Vigilantes: Private Eyes and Beyond

Vigilantes

Private Eyes
Defining the Private Eye

The Private Eye: Justice and Politics

The Private Eye in Film

Changes in the Private Eye Film

The Existential Hero

Fighting Evil

The Stylites

The Return to the Politics of Everyday Life and Existential Angst

The Postmodern Investigator

Conclusion

14. Playing with a Different Sex

Gender in Film

Gender and the Law in the Cinema

The Visibility of Female Lawyers

Narrative Tropes and Female Lawyers

Subservience in Action

Emotional Dependence

The Repressed Daughter

Professional Inadequacy

The Changing Role of Female Lawyers

The Woman Lawyer as a Discreet Object of Desire?

Competent Counsel in US Films of the 1980s

The Woman Lawyer in the Supporting Cast

The Demise of the Political

Rebecka Martinsson: An Alternative Role for Women Lawyers?

The Politics of Gender in Legal Films

Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Portrayals

15. Minority Report? Ethnicity in Film

Ethnic Minority Representation in Film
Race in British Film: The Imperialist Era

Foreignness on the Home Front

The Question of Integration

The Black and Asian British Experience

Ethnicity and the Law Film

Ethnic Minority Lawyers

Conclusion

16. Future Trajectories and Possibilities

Sometimes I Fantasize: Celestial Justice

Cyber Justice

Safe European Home? Law and Film in Europe

France

Germany

Spain

Current Debates

Future Directions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Greenfield is a senior academic in law at the University of Westminster.
Guy Osborn is Professor of Law at the University of Westminster and Professor (II) in the Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
Peter Robson is a Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde.