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Law on the Screen

Law on the Screen

Douglas, Lawrence
Umphrey, Martha Merrill
Sarat, Austin

Hardcover

Series: The Amherst Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

AnthropologyFilm StudiesGeneral Law

ISBN10: 0804751625
ISBN13: 9780804751629
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Mar 29 2005
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

The proliferation of images of law, legal processes, and officials on television and in film is a phenomenon of enormous significance. Mass-mediated images are as powerful, pervasive, and important as are other early twenty-first-century social forces--e.g. globalization, neo-colonialism, and human rights--in shaping and transforming legal life. Yet scholars have only recently begun to examine how law works in this new arena and to explore the consequences of the representation of law in the moving image. Law on the Screen advances our understanding of the connection between law and film by analyzing them as narrative forms, examining film for its jurisprudential content--that is, its ways of critiquing the present legal world and imagining an alternative one--and expanding studies of the representation of law in film to include questions of reception.

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