Movies on trial : the legal system on the silver screen /
Anthony Chase.
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2002.
- xx, 204 p. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-192) and index.
Chapter 1 Legal Visibility: Finding and Looking at Law 1 -- Chapter 2 Constitutional Foundation: Revolution and the Rule of Law 32 -- Chapter 3 Criminal-Law Films: Crime-Control Versus Due-Process Cinema 67 -- Chapter 4 Civil-Law Films: The cinema of Tort Liability 104 -- Chapter 5 International-Law Films: Sovereignty, Idealism, Consensus 120 -- Chapter 6 Films of Comparative Law and Politics: Germany 133 -- Chapter 7 Popular Culture, Legal Genre, Realism 158.
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Justice, Administration of,in motion pictures. Lawyers in motion pictures. Administración de justicia en el cine Abogados en el cine