Women Film And Law

Author : Suzanne Bouclin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0774865881

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Women, Film, and Law by Suzanne Bouclin Pdf

Entertainment and profit constitute the driving forces behind most popular representations of incarcerated women. Some cinematic representations, however, and the women-in-prison genre especially, can generate complex legal meanings and leave viewers feeling unsettled about women’s incarceration. Focusing on five exemplary films and one television series, from 1933 to the present, Women, Film, and Law asks how fictional representations explore, shape, and refine beliefs about women’s incarceration. Suzanne Bouclin convincingly argues that popular depictions of women’s prisons can illuminate multiple forms of marginalization and oppression experienced by women in conflict with the law.

Author : Suzanne Bouclin
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774865890

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Women, Film, and Law by Suzanne Bouclin Pdf

Entertainment and profit constitute the driving forces behind most popular representations of incarcerated women. Some cinematic representations, however, and the women-in-prison genre especially, can generate complex legal meanings and leave viewers feeling unsettled about women’s incarceration. Focusing on five exemplary films and one television series, from 1933 to the present, Women, Film, and Law asks how fictional representations explore, shape, and refine beliefs about women’s incarceration. Suzanne Bouclin convincingly argues that popular depictions of women’s prisons can illuminate multiple forms of marginalization and oppression experienced by women in conflict with the law.

Author : Orit Kamir
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Steve Greenfield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135339661

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Film & the Law by Steve Greenfield Pdf

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Steve Greenfield,Guy Osborn,Peter Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847317421

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Film and the Law by Steve Greenfield,Guy Osborn,Peter Robson Pdf

Described by Richard Sherwin of New York Law School as the law and film movement's 'founding text', this text is a second, heavily revised and improved edition of the original Film and the Law (Cavendish Publishing, 2001). The book is distinctive in a number of ways: it is unique as a sustained book-length exposition on law and film by law scholars; it is distinctive within law and film scholarship in its attempt to plot the parameters of a distinctive genre of law films; its examination of law in film as place and space offers a new way out of the law film genre problem, and also offers an examination of representations of an aspect of legal practice, and legal institutions, that have not been addressed by other scholars. It is original in its contribution to work within the wider parameters of law and popular culture and offers a sustained challenge to traditional legal scholarship, amply demonstrating the practical and the pedagogic, as well as the moral and political significance of popular cultural representations of law. The book is a valuable teaching and learning resource, and is the first in the field to serve as a basic guidebook for students of law and film.

Author : Cynthia A. Barto Lucia
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : David Alan Black
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0252067657

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Law in Film by David Alan Black Pdf

The courtroom, like the movie theater, is an arena for the telling and interpreting of stories. Investigators piece them together, witnesses tell them, advocates retell them, and judges and juries assess their plausibility. These narratives reconstitute absent events through words, and their filming constitutes a double narrative: one important cultural practice rendered in the terms of another. Drawing on both film studies and legal scholarship, David A. Black explores the implications of representing court procedure, as well as other phases of legal process, in film. His study ranges from an inquiry into the common metaphorical ground between film and law, explored through "the detective" and "the witness," to a critical survey of legal writings about the cinema, to close analyses of key films about law. In examining multiple aspects of law in film, Black sustains a focus on the central importance of narrative while also unearthing the influences--pleasure in film, power in law--that lie beyond the narrative realm. Black's penetrating study treats questions of narrative authority and structure, social authority, and cultural history, revealing the underlying historical, cultural, and cognitive connections between legal and cinematic practices.

Author : Martha Fineman,Martha T. McCluskey
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 9780195096293

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Feminism, Media, and the Law by Martha Fineman,Martha T. McCluskey Pdf

Drawing on a striking array of sources, this book presents a collection of essays by leading scholars and activists that explore how the media represents and constructs gender, law, and feminism. Topics include hate radio, Anita Hill, popular women's magazines, and the portrayal of women in film and television.

Author : Steve Greenfield
Publisher : Cavendish Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781843142645

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Film & the Law by Steve Greenfield Pdf

This text has several aims that seek to set out the boundaries of the study of film and the law. It draws upon the work that has been produced to date, by both American and English law academics, but offers a critical analysis of where the subject area is and where further study may take it.

Author : Steve Greenfield,Guy Osborn,Peter Robson
Publisher : Routledge Cavendish
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781859416396

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Film and the Law by Steve Greenfield,Guy Osborn,Peter Robson Pdf

Film and the Law is concerned with the phenomena of films about law, lawyers and justice. These have a long and distinguished history ranging from the classic Young Mr Lincoln in 1939 to the contemporary Erin Brockovich. The book examines the major theoretical perspectives within which 20th century work on law and film has appeared and analyses the problem of how law films can be classified. It provides a critical review of the work produced to date before proceeding to analyse the general features and ideology of law films. Apart from reviewing the way law and lawyers are portrayed in film generally, the book covers areas such as the use of true stories as the basis for film, the limited portrayals of judges and juries and the role of what we have termed invisible lawyers. In addition, the influence of film noir and particularly private eyes is examined along with an analysis of the Film and the Law concludes by examining future developments for film and the law and how its future terrain might be mapped.

Author : Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253027313

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African Women by Kathleen Sheldon Pdf

African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. She provides rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. Sheldon's work profiles elite women, as well as those in leadership roles, traders and market women, religious women, slave women, women in resistance movements, and women in politics and development. The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women's roles in the history of Africa.

Author : Peter Robson,Jennifer L Schulz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509905706

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A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV by Peter Robson,Jennifer L Schulz Pdf

This collection examines law and justice on television in different countries around the world. It provides a benchmark for further study of the nature and extent of television coverage of justice in fictional, reality and documentary forms. It does this by drawing on empirical work from a range of scholars in different jurisdictions. Each chapter looks at the raw data of how much "justice" material viewers were able to access in the multi-channel world of 2014 looking at three phases: apprehension (police), adjudication (lawyers), and disposition (prison/punishment). All of the authors indicate how television developed in their countries. Some have extensive public service channels mixed with private media channels. Financing ranges from advertising to programme sponsorship to licensing arrangements. A few countries have mixtures of these. Each author also examines how "TV justice" has developed in their own particular jurisdiction. Readers will find interesting variations and thought-provoking similarities. There are a lot of television shows focussed on legal themes that are imported around the world. The authors analyse these as well. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in law, popular culture, TV, or justice and provides an important addition to the literature due to its grounding in empirical data.

Author : Jocelynne A. Scutt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319449388

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Women, Law and Culture by Jocelynne A. Scutt Pdf

This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class or status. Written by scholars from a wide range of specialists in law, sociology, anthropology, popular and cultural studies, history, communications, film and sex and gender, this study provides an authoritative take on different cultures, cultural demands and constraints, contradictions and requirements for conformity generating conflict. Women, Law and Culture is distinctive because it recognises that no particular culture singles out women for 'special' treatment, rules and requirements; rather, all do. Highlighting the way law and culture are intimately intertwined, impacting on women – whatever their country and social and economic status – this book will be of great interest to scholars of law, women’s and gender studies and media studies.

Author : Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Women lawyers
ISBN : 0252062051

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Women in Law by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein Pdf

Author : Lars Mjøset,Nils Butenschøn,Kristian Berg Harpviken
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781837531226

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A Comparative Historical and Typological Approach to the Middle Eastern State System by Lars Mjøset,Nils Butenschøn,Kristian Berg Harpviken Pdf

Showcasing the legacy of Norwegian political scientist and sociologist Stein Rokkan, this volume ushers in a new vision in the field of state formation and nation building.