"The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one, often depicting lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries 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 …
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 ab…
This book is an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of law and film. It explores interconnections that are usually ignored between law and film through three main themes:A Fantastic Jurisprudence explores representations of law in lawLaw, Aesthe…
Law's moving image
Bringing together scholars from law, film studies, literary theory, cultural studies and sociology, this collection moves beyond the 'first wave' of law and film studies to pose questions about the aesthetics of law and order and the landscape of film regulation.
Bringing together scholars from law, film studies, literary theory, cultural studies and sociology, this collection moves beyond the 'first wave' of law and film studies to pose questions about the aesthetics of law and order and the landscape of film regulation.
Bringing together scholars from law, film studies, literary theory, cultural studies and sociology, this collection moves beyond the "first wave" of law and film studies to pose questions about the aesthetics of law and order and the landscape of film regulation.