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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809657103321

Autore

Schwartz Louis Georges

Titolo

Mechanical witness : a history of motion picture evidence in U.S. courts / / Louis-Georges Schwartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-33559-6

9786612335594

0-19-971803-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (140 p.)

Disciplina

347.73/75

Soggetti

Video tapes in courtroom proceedings - United States

Motion pictures - Law and legislation - United States

Evidence, Demonstrative - United States

Courts - United States

Judicial process - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: After 100 Years of Evidentiary Film and Video -- 2 Introducing Films into the Courts: The 1920s -- 3 The Development of Case Law Governing the Use of Motion Picture Evidence in the 1940s and 1950s -- 4 Framing Videotape -- 5 The Rodney King Case, or Moving Testimony -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.