Legal Reelism: MOVIES AS LEGAL TEXTS - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0252065352 ISBN 13: 9780252065354

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1996

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"Coppola on criminal law? Streep on Libel? Capra on Constitutional Law? Denvir argues that ... popular films both reflect and shape our received myths about our most cherished legal institutions... Sit down with a box of popcorn, some Junior Mints, and Legal Reelism to find out what the Duke has to teach us about law and order in America." -- Harvard Law Review

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Law and and justice are important themes in film, not only in courtroom dramas, but also in the western, the film noir, even the documentary. In the Godfather trilogy Francis Ford Coppola shows that the Mafia possesses its own strict codes, even though they are in conflict with those of the criminal justice system. In Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors the protagonist also "gets away with murder," but with a different dramatic intent by the director and a different effect on the audience. Shedding light on myriad facets of the law/film relationship, fourteen contributors to Legal Reelism analyze films ranging from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,It's a Wonderful Life, and Drums Along the Mohawk to Do the Right Thing,Basic Instinct,The Thin Blue Line, and Thelma and Louise. The first volume to contain work by both humanists and legal specialists, Legal Reelism is a landmark text for those concerned with depictions of justice in the media and the impact of those depictions on society at large.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0252065352
• ISBN 13: 9780252065354
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
• Herausgeber: Denvir John