TY - GEN T1 - Reimagining To kill a mockingbird : family, community, and the possibility of equal justice under law T2 - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Literature. A2 - Umphrey, Martha Merrill A2 - Sarat, Austin LA - English PP - Amherst PB - University of Massachusetts Press YR - 2013 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn867739421 AB - Fifty years after the release of the film version of Harper Lee's acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird, this collection of original essays takes a fresh look at a classic text in legal scholarship. The contributors revisit and examine Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch, their community, and the events that occur there through the interdisciplinary lens of law and humanities scholarship. The readings in this volume peel back the film's visual representation of the many-layered social world of Maycomb, Alabama, offering sometimes counterintuitive insights through the prism of a number of provocative contemporary theoretical and interpretive questions. What, they ask, is the relationship between the subversion of social norms and the doing of justice or injustice? Through what narrative and visual devices are some social hierarchies destabilized while others remain hegemonic? How should we understand the sacrifices characters make in the name of justice, and comprehend their failures in achieving it? Asking such questions casts light on the film's eccentricities and internal contradictions and suggests the possibility of new interpretations of a culturally iconic text. The book examines the context that gave meaning to the film's representation of race and how debates about family, community, and race are played out and reframed in law. OP - 196 CN - PS3562.E353 T654 2013 SN - 9781613762714 SN - 1613762712 SN - 9781625340160 SN - 1625340168 SN - 9781625340153 SN - 162534015X KW - Lee, Harper. : To kill a mockingbird. KW - To kill a mockingbird (Lee, Harper) KW - Law in literature. KW - Droit dans la litteĢrature. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General. KW - Law in literature ER -