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The celluloid courtroom : a history of legal cinema /
The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like them to be. The idealized courtroom of many legal movies tells us a great deal about what we think of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger Publishers,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like them to be. The idealized courtroom of many legal movies tells us a great deal about what we think of our justice system and what we want it to reflect about America, but the films in the genre vary widely in how they do this. From To Kill a Mockingbird to Liar, Liar, from A Time to Kill to Twelve Angry Men, we see certain stereotypes repeating themselves again and again: the judge as stern referee. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 168 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0313013705 9780313013706 9780275982331 0275982335 1282404490 9781282404496 9786612404498 6612404493 |