Framing Female Lawyers

Author : Cynthia A. Barto Lucia
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292797031

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Framing Female Lawyers by Cynthia A. Barto Lucia Pdf

As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful career woman. Yet a close viewing of these films reveals contradictions and anxieties that belie the films' apparent acceptance of women's professional roles. In film after film, the woman lawyer herself effectively ends up "on trial" for violating norms of femininity and patriarchal authority. In this book, Cynthia Lucia offers a sustained analysis of women lawyer films as a genre and as a site where other genres including film noir, maternal melodrama, thrillers, action romance, and romantic comedy intersect. She traces Hollywood representations of female lawyers through close readings of films from the 1949 Adam's Rib through films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Jagged Edge, The Accused, and The Client, among others. She also examines several key male lawyer films and two independent films, Lizzie Borden's Love Crimes and Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lucia convincingly demonstrates that making movies about women lawyers and the law provides unusually fertile ground for exploring patriarchy in crisis. This, she argues, is the cultural stimulus that prompts filmmakers to create stories about powerful women that simultaneously question and undermine women's right to wield authority.

Author : Tsedale M. Melaku
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538107935

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You Don't Look Like a Lawyer by Tsedale M. Melaku Pdf

You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism highlights how race and gender create barriers to recruitment, professional development, and advancement to partnership for black women in elite corporate law firms.

Author : Orit Kamir
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822336243

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Framed by Orit Kamir Pdf

DIVTheorizes the emerging field at the intersection of law and film through a detailed, feminist analysis of masterpiece films about law from around the world./div

Author : Mona Harrington
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : 0394580257

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Women Lawyers by Mona Harrington Pdf

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with women lawyers, judges, law school professors, and law students, Harrington pinpoints the barriers women face when they claim equal professional authority--among them the "men's club" ambience, the focus on billable hours, distorted media images, and sexual harassment.

Author : Mary Jane Mossman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847310958

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The First Women Lawyers by Mary Jane Mossman Pdf

This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Their challenges took place at a time of considerable optimism about progressive societal change, including new and expanding opportunities for women, as well as a variety of proposals for reforming law, legal education, and standards of legal professionalism. By situating women's claims for admission to the bar within this reformist context in different jurisdictions, the study examines the intersection of historical ideas about gender and about legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century. In exploring these systemic issues, the study also provides detailed examinations of the lives of some of the first women lawyers in six jurisdictions: the United States, Canada, Britain, New Zealand and Australia, India, and western Europe. In exploring how individual women adopted different legal arguments in litigated cases, or devised particular strategies to overcome barriers to professional work, the study assesses how shifting and contested ideas about gender and about legal professionalism shaped women's opportunities and choices, as well as both support for and opposition to their claims. As a comparative study of the first women lawyers in several different jurisdictions, the book reveals how a number of quite different women engaged with ideas of gender and legal professionalism at the turn of the twentieth century.

Author : Helena Kennedy
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446468340

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Eve Was Framed by Helena Kennedy Pdf

Eve Was Framed offers an impassioned, personal critique of the British legal system. Helena Kennedy focuses on the treatment of women in our courts - at the prejudices of judges, the misconceptions of jurors, the labyrinths of court procedures and the influence of the media. But the inequities she uncovers could apply equally to any disadvantaged group - to those whose cases are subtly affected by race, class poverty or politics, or who are burdened, even before they appear in court, by misleading stereotypes.

Author : Mark Mandell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1941007414

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Case Framing by Mark Mandell Pdf

Author : J. E. Smyth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190840846

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Nobody's Girl Friday by J. E. Smyth Pdf

Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." She had a point. Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country in terms of gender equality and employment. The first comprehensive history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era, Nobody's Girl Friday covers the impact of the executives, producers, editors, writers, agents, designers, directors, and actresses who shaped Hollywood film production and style, led their unions, climbed to the top during the war, and fought the blacklist. Based on a decade of archival research, author J.E. Smyth uncovers a formidable generation working within the American film industry and brings their voices back into the history of Hollywood. Their achievements, struggles, and perspectives fundamentally challenge popular ideas about director-based auteurism, male dominance, and female disempowerment in the years between First and Second Wave Feminism. Nobody's Girl Friday is a revisionist history, but it's also a deeply personal, collective account of hundreds of working women, the studios they worked for, and the films they helped to make. For many years, historians and critics have insisted that both American feminism and the power of women in Hollywood declined and virtually disappeared from the 1920s through the 1960s. But Smyth vindicates Bette Davis's claim. The story of the women who called the shots in studio-era Hollywood has never fully been told-until now.

Author : Greg M. Smith
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292716438

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Beautiful TV by Greg M. Smith Pdf

Offers a different approach to analyzing television series. Starting from the premise that much of television is "drop-dead gorgeous" and that TV should be studied for its formal qualities as well as its social impact, this work analyzes "Ally McBeal" in terms of its aesthetic principles and narrative construction.

Author : Barbara Babcock
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804779357

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Woman Lawyer by Barbara Babcock Pdf

Woman Lawyer tells the story of Clara Foltz, the first woman admitted to the California Bar. Famous in her time as a public intellectual, leader of the women's movement, and legal reformer, Foltz faced terrific prejudice and well-organized opposition to women lawyers as she tried cases in front of all-male juries, raised five children as a single mother, and stumped for political candidates. She was the first to propose the creation of a public defender to balance the public prosecutor. Woman Lawyer uncovers the legal reforms and societal contributions of a woman celebrated in her day, but lost to history until now. It casts new light on the turbulent history and politics of California in a period of phenomenal growth and highlights the interconnection of the suffragists and other movements for civil rights and legal reforms.

Author : Sue Thornham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781839021169

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What If I Had Been the Hero? by Sue Thornham Pdf

Sue Thornham's study explores issues in feminist filmmaking through an examination of a wide range of films by women filmmakers, ranging from the avant-garde to mainstream Hollywood, and from the 1970s to the present day, discussing directors including Sally Potter, Jane Campion, Julie Dash, Patricia Rozema and Lynne Ramsay.

Author : Erin Field
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1946203378

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Justice Is a Lady Lawyer by Erin Field Pdf

Being a lady lawyer is not always easy. Erin has weathered the storms and has earned the respect of fellow attorneys and judges that cause others to marvel. There are things you learn in law school, then there are the things you learn while practicing the law. Once you have the first behind you, Erin can teach you the rest. Erin's desire is to help fellow female lawyers get better at their craft. She has been called, "the Guru to the gals." So if you're a female lawyer and want to get better, you'll learn a lot by reading what Erin has to say in this book.

Author : Suzanne Leonard,Yvonne Tasker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317593942

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Fifty Hollywood Directors by Suzanne Leonard,Yvonne Tasker Pdf

Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry heavyweights. Each entry discusses a director’s practices and body of work and features a brief biography and suggestions for further reading. Entries include: Frank Capra Cecil B DeMille John Ford Alfred Hitchcock Fritz Lang Orson Welles DW Griffith King Vidor This is an indispensible guide for anyone interested in film history, Hollywood and the development of the role of the director.

Author : Kim Brooks
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774859141

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Justice Bertha Wilson by Kim Brooks Pdf

Bertha Wilson’s appointment as the first female justice of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1982 capped off a career of firsts. Wilson had been the first woman lawyer and partner at a prominent Toronto law firm and the first woman appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal. Her death in 2007 provoked reflection on her contributions to the Canadian legal landscape and raised the question, what difference do women judges make? Justice Bertha Wilson examines Wilson’s career through three distinct frames and a wide range of feminist perspectives. The authors evince Wilson’s contributions to the legal system in “Foundations,” examine her role in high-profile decisions in “Controversy,” and assess her credentials as a feminist judge and her impact on education and the profession in “Reflections.” This nuanced portrait of a complex, controversial woman will appeal to lawyers, judges, policy makers, academics, and anyone interested in law and women’s contributions to Canadian society.

Author : Cynthia Lucia,Roy Grundmann,Art Simon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118475119

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American Film History by Cynthia Lucia,Roy Grundmann,Art Simon Pdf

From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day. Considers essential subjects that have shaped the American film industry—from the impact of television and CGI to the rise of independent and underground film; from the impact of the civil rights, feminist and LGBT movements to that of 9/11. Features a student-friendly structure dividing coverage into the periods 1960-1975, 1976-1990, and 1991 to the present day, each of which opens with an historical overview Brings together a rich and varied selection of contributions by established film scholars, combining broad historical, social, and political contexts with detailed analysis of individual films, including Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, Cat Ballou, Chicago, Back to the Future, Killer of Sheep, Daughters of the Dust, Nothing But a Man, Ali, Easy Rider, The Conversation, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Longtime Companion, The Matrix, The War Tapes, the Batman films, and selected avant-garde and documentary films, among many others. Additional online resources, such as sample syllabi, which include suggested readings and filmographies, for both general and specialized courses, will be available online. May be used alongside American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 to provide an authoritative study of American cinema from its earliest days through the new millennium