Law on the Screen

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Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey

Type

Studies

Subject

Genre > Mystery

Keywords

justice, genre

Publishing date

2005

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Collection

Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 288 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

0-8047-5162-5
978-0-8047-5162-9

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the authors:
Austin Sarat is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Lawrence Douglas is Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College. Martha Merrill Umphrey is Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College.

See the publisher website: Stanford University Press