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Title: Movies on Trial: The Legal System on the Silver Screen by Anthony Chase ISBN: 1-56584-700-8 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: No Fluff
Comment: This book is completely different than I expected. From its cover and the "official" reviews, I thought that it would be an enjoyable and easy read. It is not. Nonetheless, its analysis-- while not what I was looking for-- is interesting, so I read it anyhow.
Just to give you an idea what you are getting into with this book, here is an extended quotation from Chapter 3: "If Hegel was right, an appreciation for dialectical oppositions can greatly enhance one's insight into the nature of existence, including the experience of historical development and change. Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy, present at the creation of the critical legal studies movement, wrote a famous law-review article identifying a tension he saw running like a red thread through the history of American law: that between individualism and altruism. Historian Athur M. Schlesinger, Jr., has described American history as a whole in terms of the 'cycles of American politics,' an oscillation in governmental commitment to the public purpose against the private interest. ... Core genres within the culture of American legal cinema can similarly be portrayed in terms of a central and animating contradiction or dialectic specific to each."
Again, not the causal book about how the law has been portrayed in movies like I was expecting. Still, worthy of reading for those with the patience.
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Title: Reel Justice: The Courtroom Goes to the Movies by Paul Bergman, Michael Asimow ISBN: 0836210352 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Law in Film: Resonance and Representation by David A. Black ISBN: 0252067657 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture by Richard K. Sherwin ISBN: 0226752925 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Law in the Domains of Culture (The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought) by Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns ISBN: 0472087010 Publisher: UMP Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law by Peter Brooks, Paul Gewirtz ISBN: 0300074905 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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