Framed
Subtitle: women in law and film
By: Orit Kamir.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Women in motion pictures; Sex discrimination in motion pictures; Legal films (Drama) -- History and criticism
Description: "Through innovative readings of a dozen movies made between 1928 and 2001 in Europe, Japan, and the United States, Orit Kamir shows that in representing 'gender crimes,' feature films have constructed a cinematic jurisprudence, training audiences worldwide in patterns of judgment of women (and men) in such situations. Offering a novel formulation of the emerging field of law and film, Kamir combines basic legal concepts - murder, rape, provocation, insanity, and self-defense - with narratology, social science methodologies, and film studies"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rashomon : construction of woman as guilty object; title: Pandora's box : exorcising Pandora-Lilith in the Weimar Republic; title: Blackmail : Hitchcock's sound and the new woman's guilty silence; title: Anatomy of a murder: Hollywood's hero-lawyer revives the unwritten law; title: Adam's rib : Hollywood's female lawyer and family values; title: Nuts : the mad woman's day in court; title: Death and the maiden : challenging trauma with feminine judgment and justice; title: A question of silence : feminist community as revolution (read against "a jury of her peers"); title: Set it off : minority women at the point of no return; title: High heels : Almodovar's postmodern transgression.