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Mechanical witness : a history of motion picture evidence in U.S. courts / Louis-Georges Schwartz.

Title
Mechanical witness : a history of motion picture evidence in U.S. courts / Louis-Georges Schwartz.
Author
Schwartz, Louis Georges.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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133 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
This title charts the changing role and theoretical implications of the use of film and video as courtroom evidence. The author moves from the earliest uses of film in courts to Bin Laden's taped statements after 9/11, revealing how the courts have developed a reliance on film and video technologies.
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Video tapes in court proceedings > United States
  • Motion pictures > Law and legislation > United States
  • Evidence, Demonstrative > United States
  • Courts > United States
  • Judicial process > United States
  • Evidence, Documentary > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780195315059 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0195315057 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780195315066 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0195315065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2008055740
OCLC
294998739
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library