1st Edition
Law's Moving Image
256 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
256 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
255 Pages
by
Routledge-Cavendish
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This book is an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of law and film. It explores interconnections that are usually ignored between law and film through three main themes:
A Fantastic Jurisprudence explores representations of law in law
Law, Aesthetics and Visual Technologies focuses on the visual aspects of law's moving image
Regulation: Histories,... Read more
Heavenly Justice; Once More Unto the Breach: Branagh's Henry V, Blair's War and the UK Constitution; 'It's the Vibe!': The Common Law Imaginary Down Under; Rebel Without a Cause?; Toy Law, Toy Joy, Toy Story 2; On Realism and the Law Film: the Case of Oscar Wilde; Trial as Documentary: Images of Eichmann; Film and Law: In Search of a Critical Method; Endless Street, Pursued by Ghosts; 'Into the Blue': The Cinematic Possibility of Judgment with Passion; Not Harmless Entertainment: State Censorship and Cinema in the Transitional Era; The Natives are Looking: Cinema and Censorship in Colonial India; Rethinking Regulation: Violence and 1967 Hollywood; Cultural 'Patronage' Versus Cultural 'Defence': Alternatives to National Film Policies; How the Movie Moguls Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Technologies: Copyright and Film; A More Developed Sign: the Legal Mediation of Things.
Biography
Leslie J Moran, Emma Sandon, Elena Loizidou, Ian Christie all Birkbeck College, University of London.
