Law on the screen
By: edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey.
Contributors: Douglas, Lawrence.; Umphrey, Martha Merrill.
Series: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Essays originally presented at a conference entitled Law's Moving Image, held April 11-12, 2003, at Amherst College.
Table of contents: title: On film and law : broadening the focus / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey; title: Cinematic judgment and jurisprudence : a woman's memory, recovery, and justice in a post-traumatic society (a study of Polanski's Death and the maiden) / Orit Kamir; title: The racial-spatial order and the law : Devil in a blue dress / Michael J. Shapiro; title: Anti-oedipus, lynch : initiatory rites and the ordeal of justice / Richard K. Sherwin; title: Reproducing a trial : evidence and its assessment in Paradise lost / Jennifer L. Mnookin; title: A case for corrective criticism : A civil action / Diane Waldman; title: "Everyone went wild over it" : film audiences, political cinema, and Mr. Smith goes to Washington / Eric Smoodin.