Law on the Screen

(livre en anglais)

Ajouter à ma liste

Sous la direction de Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas et Martha Umphrey

Type

Etudes

Sujet

Genre > Film à énigme

Mots Clés

justice, genre

Année d'édition

2005

Editeur

Stanford University Press

Collection

Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Relié • 288 pages
16 x 24 cm

ISBN-10
ISBN-13

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

Appréciation

(0 vote)

X

Moyenne des votes :

0	vote	= On peut s'en passer
0	vote	= Bon livre
0	vote	= Excellent livre
0	vote	= Unique / une référence

Votre vote : -

Description de l'ouvrage :
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.

À propos des auteurs :
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.

Revue de Presse :
"The great strength of Law on the Screen lies in its insightful jurisprudential readings of films previously unconsidered by law and film scholars, as well as its innovative focus on reception. This collection offers a sophisticated and challenging analysis of filmic representations of law, making it a very welcome contribution to the emerging field of law and film studies. These essays represent a real coming of age of law and film scholarship."—Professor Leslie J. Moran, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London

"This collection will serve as a highly relevant and timely introduction to the kinds of nuanced and thoughtful analyses that can be generated in the study of the relationship between law and film. For those more familiar with cultural studies and analyses of law and film, the volume presents essays that approach the area in stimulatingly diverse ways, raising new questions about law, the legal institution, and cultural representations of law and justice."—Alison Young, University of Melbourne

Voir le site internet de l'éditeur Stanford University Press