LEADER 03652nam 2200577Ia 450 001 9910956234703321 005 20251125173607.0 010 $a1-282-33559-6 010 $a9786612335594 010 $a0-19-971803-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000816904 035 $a(OCoLC)466107037 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10346411 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3053502 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB166394 035 $a(BIP)46837063 035 $a(BIP)26515598 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000816904 100 $a20081229d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMechanical witness $ea history of motion picture evidence in U.S. courts /$fLouis-Georges Schwartz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (140 p.) 311 08$a0-19-531506-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aMechanical Witness is the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of film and video use as courtroom evidence. Schwartz moves from the earliest employment of film in the courts of the 1920s to the notious 1991 Rodney Kind video, revealing how the courts have developed a reliance on film and video technologies and contributed to the growing influence of visual media as a dominant mode of knowledge formation. At the same time, film and video in juridical contexts has developed a distinct theoretical legacy. The particular qualities of film as evidence both resonate with and contradict existing scholarship-focusing on economic, social, or aesthetic factors-which hitherto has defined film's status and cultural contribution. In the context of a trial, the possible meanings of a film change from its meanings when shown in a movie theater or broadcast on television, yet the public (and cinema scholars) tend to assume that the two are the same. Mechanical Witness demonstrates that we must understand evidentiary film and video's institutional specificity if we are to understand the full effects of motion picture technologies on our culture. This study sets the terms for a long overdue assessment of how the entertainment industry has shaped our film viewing practices, the place of moving picture evidence in the courtroom, and the social and cultural consequences of these intertwined histories. 606 $aVideo tapes in court proceedings$zUnited States 606 $aMotion pictures$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aEvidence, Demonstrative$zUnited States 606 $aCourts$zUnited States 606 $aJudicial process$zUnited States 615 0$aVideo tapes in court proceedings 615 0$aMotion pictures$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aEvidence, Demonstrative 615 0$aCourts 615 0$aJudicial process 676 $a347.73/75 700 $aSchwartz$b Louis Georges$01140205 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956234703321 996 $aMechanical witness$94458446 997 $aUNINA