Mechanical witness : a history of motion picture evidence in U.S. courts /

This title charts the changing role and theoretical implications of the use of film and video as courtroom evidence. The author moves from the earliest uses of film in courts to Bin Laden's taped statements after 9/11, revealing how the courts have developed a reliance on film and video technol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwartz, Louis Georges
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Video tapes in court proceedings > United States.
Motion pictures > Law and legislation > United States.
Evidence, Demonstrative > United States.
Courts > United States.
Judicial process > United States.
Vidéo durant les procès > États-Unis.
Preuve matérielle > États-Unis.
Processus judiciaire > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
LAW > Legal Services.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
Courts
Evidence, Demonstrative
Judicial process
Motion pictures > Law and legislation
Video tapes in court proceedings
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: after 100 years of evidentiary film and video
  • Introducing films into the courts: the 1920s
  • The development of case law governing the use of motion picture evidence in the 1940s and 1950s
  • Framing videotape
  • The Rodney King case, or moving testimony.

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