Film and the law : the cinema of justice / Steve Greenfield, Guy Osborn and Peter Robson.
2010
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Author
Title
Film and the law : the cinema of justice / Steve Greenfield, Guy Osborn and Peter Robson.
Published
Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2010.
Call Number
PN1995.9.J8 G47 2010
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9781841137254 (pbk.)
1841137251 (pbk.) :
1841137251 (pbk.) :
Description
xiv, 343 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(Uk)014760909
(UkCU)5025436
(OCoLC)679926653
(UkCU)5025436
(OCoLC)679926653
Note
Previous edition: London : Cavendish, 2001.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [300]-328) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
v
1.
Film and the Law: an Orientation
1
Law and Film Scholarship
1
Methodology
3
Language
8
Empirical Work and Causation
10
The Heterogeneous Goals of Law and Popular Culture
11
2.
The Penetration of Law and Film
13
The Framework of Legal Education
13
Law and Context[—]the Role of the Socio-legal Imagination
15
Popular Culture and Law and Popular Culture
16
The Use(s) of Film
21
Film and Law Teaching
23
Law and Film Courses
27
3.
Theoretical underpinnings and physical boundaries[—]defining the territory
32
The Dramatic Dimension of Law
34
Visuality and Image
36
The Cult of the Robe: Dress and Appearance in Film
38
Defining the Parameters of Law and Film: Academic Approaches
41
Inside the Courtroom
45
The Phases of Law
47
Conclusion
48
4.
Strictly Courtroom? Law Film and Genre
51
Critical Aspects of the Courtroom Drama
52
Plot Conventions
53
Laughing at the Law
58
Genre Theory
61
5.
The British Law Film: From Genre to Iconography
68
Britishness and Film: Protection and Representations
69
British Law Films
73
The Iconography of Law
76
Conclusion
78
6.
Military Justice on Screen
80
Filming Military Justice
82
The Scapegoat
85
The Courtroom Drama in Uniform
88
Justice and Legality in the Military Context
90
Conclusion
92
7.
Assessing Cinematic Lawyers (I): Heroes and Villains
94
The Heroic Lawyer: When Atticus Met Lincoln
95
Flawed Characters?
100
Assessing the Good/Bad Categories
102
8.
Assessing Cinematic Lawyers (II): Alternative Categorisations
111
Introduction
111
Alternative Categorisations
117
Conclusion
121
9.
Missing in Action (I): Judges
124
The Invisible Judge
125
The Corrupt Judge
128
The Troubled Judge
129
The Comic Judge
130
The Political Judge
131
Judges as Protagonists[—]the Judge under the Spotlight
133
10.
Missing in Action (II): Juries
144
The Importance of the Jury
144
Jury Selection
146
Jury Deliberation
151
The Compensatory Jury
153
Conclusion
154
11.
Fact, Fiction and the Cinema of Justice (I): Presumed Accurate?
157
Facts, Cases and Lawyers
164
Documentary Films
166
Developments in the 21st Century
168
Who Owns History?
170
Whose Story?
172
Conclusion
174
12.
Fact, Fiction and the Cinema of Justice (II): Specificities
177
Common Themes
177
Let Him Have It (1991)
177
In the Name of the Father (1993)
179
The Hurricane (1999)
181
Amistad (1997)
183
A Civil Action (1998)
185
Erin Brockovich (2000)
191
Evelyn (2002)
193
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
194
13.
Love Vigilantes: Private Eyes and Beyond
197
Vigilantes
198
Private Eyes
201
Defining the Private Eye
202
The Private Eye: Justice and Politics
204
The Private Eye in Film
206
The Existential Hero
209
Fighting Evil
211
The Stylites
212
The Return to the Politics of Everyday Life and Existential Angst
215
The Postmodern Investigator
216
Conclusion
220
14.
Playing with a Different Sex
222
Gender in Film
223
Gender and the Law in the Cinema
224
The Visibility of Female Lawyers
227
Narrative Tropes and Female Lawyers
228
Subservience in Action
229
Emotional Dependence
230
The Repressed Daughter
233
Professional Inadequacy
235
The Changing Role of Female Lawyers
237
The Woman Lawyer as a Discreet Object of Desire?
239
Competent Counsel in US Films of the 1980's
240
The Woman Lawyer in the Supporting Cast
242
The Demise of the Political
242
Rebecka Martinsson: An Alternative Role for Women Lawyers?
244
The Politics of Gender in Legal Films
245
Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Portrayals
249
15.
Minority Report? Ethnicity in Film
254
Ethnic Minority Representation in Film
254
Race in British Film: The Imperialist Era
257
Foreignness on the Home Front
259
The Question of Integration
260
The Black and Asian British Experience
263
Ethnicity and the Law Film
268
Ethnic Minority Lawyers
270
Conclusion
274
16.
Future Trajectories and Possibilities
276
Sometimes I, Fantasize: Celestial Justice
277
Cyber Justice
282
Safe European Home? Law and Film in Europe
285
France
286
Germany
287
Spain
288
Current Debates
292
Future Directions
296
Bibliography
300
Index
329