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Titolo: |
Framing law and crime : an interdisciplinary anthology / / edited by Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart, Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Cecil Greek
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Pubblicazione: | Madison, [Wisconsin] ; ; Teaneck, [New Jersey] : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (539 pages) |
Disciplina: | 791.43/6554 |
Soggetto topico: | Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures |
Justice, Administration of, on television | |
Law in motion pictures | |
Law on television | |
Crime films - History and criticism | |
Crime on television | |
Persona (resp. second.): | PicartCaroline Joan "Kay" S. <1966-> |
JacobsenMichael Hviid <1971-> | |
GreekCecil E. | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: framing law and crime: an experiment in interdisciplinary commensurability -- Cinematic histories and real/reel dystopias of law and crime. Law and cinema movement / Stefan Machura -- The crisis of law and the imaginary of disaster: reading post-apocalyptic films / Majid Yar -- A Canadian perspective on documentary film: drug addict / Susan Boyd -- Jurisprudence in international films. In the land of blood and honey: what's fair or just in love and war crimes? lessons for transitional justice / Carrie Menkel-Meadow -- Multifocal judgment, intersecting legal proceedings and conservativism: a separation and Rashomon / Orit Kamir -- Beyond the courtroom: vigilantism, revenge, and rape-revenge films in the cinema of justice / Peter Robson -- Law and crime in American film and television. Alfred Hitchcock's visions of guilt and innocence / Mathieu Deflem -- Heroes for hard times: The wire's "good police" / John Denvir -- Documenting crime: genre, verity, and filmmaker as avenger / Matthew Sorrento -- Screening the law: ideology and law in American popular culture / Naomi Mezey -- Film, crime, and the social world. Race and serial killing in the media: the case of Wayne Williams / Caroline Joan S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez -- Globalization and the rise of the behemoth: a study in gothic criminology / Cecil Greek -- A depiction of evil, order and chaos: the symbiotic relationship of law and the supernatural in film and television / Farah Britto and Cecil Greek -- From reel to real: conducting filmic ethnography in criminology / Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Anders Petersen -- Epistemology and ethics in films of law and crime. Fact, fantasy, fallacy: division between fanciful musings and factual mutterings / Jon Frauley -- Tobias Beecher: law as a refuge from uncertainty? / Steve Greenfield -- Nationalities, histories, rhetorics: real/reel representations of the Holocaust and Holocaust trials and a poethics of film and law / Caroline Joan S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This cutting-edge edited collection brings together seventeen scholarly essays on two of cinema and television's most enduring and powerful themes: law and crime. With contributions by many of the most prominent scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and film, Framing Law and Crime offers a critical survey of a variety of genres and media, integrating descriptions of technique with critical analyses. This book will interest connoisseurs and newcomers to these topics alike. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Framing law and crime ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-61147-706-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910798138203321 |
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