Trial films on trial : law, justice, and popular culture /
A collection of wide-ranging critical essays that examine how the judicial system is represented on screen Historically, the emergence of the trial film genre coincided with the development of motion pictures. In fact, one of the very first feature-length films, Falsely Accused!, released in 1908,...
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Tuscaloosa :
The University of Alabama Press,
[2019]
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Mục lục:
- Introduction: the pleasures and possibilities of trial films / Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey, Martha Merrill Umphrey
- Law and the order of popular culture / Carol J. Clover
- Knowing it when we see it: realism and melodrama in American film since The birth of a nation / Ticien Marie Sassoubre
- Reasonable doubts, unspoken fears: reassessing the trial film's "heroic age" / Barry Langford
- Disorder in court: representations of resistance to law in trial film dramas / Norman W. Spaulding
- "I am here. I was there.": haunted testimony in the memory of justice and the specialist / Katie Model
- The appearance of truth: juridical reception and photographic evidence in standard operating procedure / Jennifer Petersen.