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Framing law and crime : an interdisciplinary anthology /

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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966- (Editor ), Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971- (Editor ), Greek, Cecil E. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison [New Jersey] : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2016.
Colección:Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.