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Law and film / edited by Stefan Machura and Peter Robson.

Title
Law and film / edited by Stefan Machura and Peter Robson.
Publication
Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Machura, Stefan
  • Robson, Peter, 1947-
Description
176 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures
  • Lawyers in motion pictures
Note
  • "Published simultaneously as Vol. 28 No. 1 of Journal of Law and Society"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Law and film : introduction / Stefan Machura and Peter Robson -- American criminal trial films : an overview of their development, 1930-2000 / Nicole Rafter -- Hero or villain? Cinematic lawyers and the delivery of justice / Steve Greenfield -- "Cape fear" : two versions and two visions separated by thirty years / Gerald J. Thain -- Myth and law in the films of John Ford / Michael Böhnke -- The German courtroom film during the Nazi period : ideology, aesthetics, historical context / Peter Drexler -- The social issue courtroom drama as an expression of American popular culture / Matthias Kuzina -- Patterns of courtroom justice / Jessica Silbey -- Law in film : globalizing the Hollywood courtroom drama / Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich -- Why a jury trial is more like a movie than a novel / Phil Meyer -- Adapting the modern law novel : filming John Grisham / Peter Robson -- Borders and boundaries : locating the law in film / Guy Osborn.
ISBN
0631228160 (pb.)
LCCN
^^2001025230
OCLC
  • 45890483
  • SCSB-10020371
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library