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Women, Film, and Law

Author : Suzanne Bouclin
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077486589X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Women, Film, and Law written by Suzanne Bouclin and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment and profit constitute the driving forces behind most popular representations of incarcerated women. Some cinematic representations, however, and the women-in-prison genre especially, can generate complex legal meanings and leave viewers feeling unsettled about women’s incarceration. Focusing on five exemplary films and one television series, from 1933 to the present, Women, Film, and Law asks how fictional representations explore, shape, and refine beliefs about women’s incarceration. Suzanne Bouclin convincingly argues that popular depictions of women’s prisons can illuminate multiple forms of marginalization and oppression experienced by women in conflict with the law.

Framed

Author : Orit Kamir
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822336242
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Framed written by Orit Kamir and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTheorizes the emerging field at the intersection of law and film through a detailed, feminist analysis of masterpiece films about law from around the world./div

Framing Female Lawyers

Author : Cynthia A. Barto Lucia
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292797036
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Book Synopsis Framing Female Lawyers by : Cynthia A. Barto Lucia

Download or read book Framing Female Lawyers written by Cynthia A. Barto Lucia and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful career woman. Yet a close viewing of these films reveals contradictions and anxieties that belie the films' apparent acceptance of women's professional roles. In film after film, the woman lawyer herself effectively ends up "on trial" for violating norms of femininity and patriarchal authority. In this book, Cynthia Lucia offers a sustained analysis of women lawyer films as a genre and as a site where other genres including film noir, maternal melodrama, thrillers, action romance, and romantic comedy intersect. She traces Hollywood representations of female lawyers through close readings of films from the 1949 Adam's Rib through films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Jagged Edge, The Accused, and The Client, among others. She also examines several key male lawyer films and two independent films, Lizzie Borden's Love Crimes and Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lucia convincingly demonstrates that making movies about women lawyers and the law provides unusually fertile ground for exploring patriarchy in crisis. This, she argues, is the cultural stimulus that prompts filmmakers to create stories about powerful women that simultaneously question and undermine women's right to wield authority.

Doing Women's Film History

Author : Christine Gledhill
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097777
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Doing Women's Film History written by Christine Gledhill and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into and around women's participation in cinematic history has enjoyed dynamic growth over the past decade. A broadening of scope and interests encompasses not only different kinds of filmmaking--mainstream fiction, experimental, and documentary--but also practices--publicity, journalism, distribution and exhibition--seldom explored in the past. Cutting-edge and inclusive, Doing Women's Film History ventures into topics in the United States and Europe while also moving beyond to explore the influence of women on the cinemas of India, Chile, Turkey, Russia, and Australia. Contributors grapple with historiographic questions that cover film history from the pioneering era to the present day. Yet the writers also address the very mission of practicing scholarship. Essays explore essential issues like identifying women's participation in their cinema cultures, locating previously unconsidered sources of evidence, developing methodologies and analytical concepts to reveal the impact of gender on film production, distribution and reception, and reframing film history to accommodate new questions and approaches. Contributors include: Kay Armatage, Eylem Atakav, Karina Aveyard, Canan Balan, Cécile Chich, Monica Dall'Asta, Eliza Anna Delveroudi, Jane M. Gaines, Christine Gledhill, Julia Knight, Neepa Majumdar, Michele Leigh, Luke McKernan, Debashree Mukherjee, Giuliana Muscio, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, Rashmi Sawhney, Elizabeth Ramirez Soto, Sarah Street, and Kimberly Tomadjoglou.

Film & the Law

Author : Steve Greenfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113533966X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Film & the Law written by Steve Greenfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-09-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Law and Film

Author : Stefan Machura
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631228165
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Law and Film written by Stefan Machura and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-06-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together contemporary work from Britain, Germany and the United States on how law and lawyers have been represented in film, particularly in the past 40 years. The collection recognises the major influence of Hollywood and the American legal system and seeks to explore the nature and significance of this dominance. A historical dimension to the portrayal of law and film. The nature and actual impact of the dominant Anglo-American portrayal is include. A European dimension is provided.

Film and the Law

Author : Steve Greenfield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847317421
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Film and the Law written by Steve Greenfield and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by Richard Sherwin of New York Law School as the law and film movement's 'founding text', this text is a second, heavily revised and improved edition of the original Film and the Law (Cavendish Publishing, 2001). The book is distinctive in a number of ways: it is unique as a sustained book-length exposition on law and film by law scholars; it is distinctive within law and film scholarship in its attempt to plot the parameters of a distinctive genre of law films; its examination of law in film as place and space offers a new way out of the law film genre problem, and also offers an examination of representations of an aspect of legal practice, and legal institutions, that have not been addressed by other scholars. It is original in its contribution to work within the wider parameters of law and popular culture and offers a sustained challenge to traditional legal scholarship, amply demonstrating the practical and the pedagogic, as well as the moral and political significance of popular cultural representations of law. The book is a valuable teaching and learning resource, and is the first in the field to serve as a basic guidebook for students of law and film.

Feminism, Media, and the Law

Author : Martha Fineman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195096290
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Feminism, Media, and the Law written by Martha Fineman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a striking array of sources, this book presents a collection of essays by leading scholars and activists that explore how the media represents and constructs gender, law, and feminism. Topics include hate radio, Anita Hill, popular women's magazines, and the portrayal of women in film and television.

Law in Film

Author : David Alan Black
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252067655
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Law in Film written by David Alan Black and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The courtroom, like the movie theater, is an arena for the telling and interpreting of stories. Investigators piece them together, witnesses tell them, advocates retell them, and judges and juries assess their plausibility. These narratives reconstitute absent events through words, and their filming constitutes a double narrative: one important cultural practice rendered in the terms of another. Drawing on both film studies and legal scholarship, David A. Black explores the implications of representing court procedure, as well as other phases of legal process, in film. His study ranges from an inquiry into the common metaphorical ground between film and law, explored through "the detective" and "the witness," to a critical survey of legal writings about the cinema, to close analyses of key films about law. In examining multiple aspects of law in film, Black sustains a focus on the central importance of narrative while also unearthing the influences--pleasure in film, power in law--that lie beyond the narrative realm. Black's penetrating study treats questions of narrative authority and structure, social authority, and cultural history, revealing the underlying historical, cultural, and cognitive connections between legal and cinematic practices.

Film & the Law

Author : Steve Greenfield
Publisher : Cavendish Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1843142643
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Film & the Law written by Steve Greenfield and published by Cavendish Publishing. This book was released on 2001-09-07 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text has several aims that seek to set out the boundaries of the study of film and the law. It draws upon the work that has been produced to date, by both American and English law academics, but offers a critical analysis of where the subject area is and where further study may take it.

Film and the Law

Author : Steve Greenfield
Publisher : Routledge Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 185941639X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Film and the Law written by Steve Greenfield and published by Routledge Cavendish. This book was released on 2001 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film and the Law is concerned with the phenomena of films about law, lawyers and justice. These have a long and distinguished history ranging from the classic Young Mr Lincoln in 1939 to the contemporary Erin Brockovich. The book examines the major theoretical perspectives within which 20th century work on law and film has appeared and analyses the problem of how law films can be classified. It provides a critical review of the work produced to date before proceeding to analyse the general features and ideology of law films. Apart from reviewing the way law and lawyers are portrayed in film generally, the book covers areas such as the use of true stories as the basis for film, the limited portrayals of judges and juries and the role of what we have termed invisible lawyers. In addition, the influence of film noir and particularly private eyes is examined along with an analysis of the Film and the Law concludes by examining future developments for film and the law and how its future terrain might be mapped.

Women in Law

Author : Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062056
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Women in Law written by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women Lawyers

Author : Mona Harrington
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831566
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Women Lawyers written by Mona Harrington and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The very presence of women in the law—normal as it may seem to us today—signals revolutionary change in a social order that for centuries entrusted control over its rules to men. Mona Harrington examines both the problems women meet when they claim equal authority as rule makers, and the impact of new perspectives and issues that women bring with them into the profession. On the basis of more than one hundred interviews with women lawyers, judges, law school professors, and law students, and through the stories of their daily experiences, Harrington pinpoints and analyzes the key factors holding women back in a profession still dominated by males—among them the “men’s club” ambience, the focus on billable hours, sexual harassment and the inequality it perpetuates, lingering unequal division of labor at home, and hostile media images of women in positions of power. She shows us what life is like for women lawyers in practice today and how their dilemmas reflect the social issues of our time. She gives us the voices of women who have adapted to the cultural codes of corporate law and women who have broken them; women who have successfully balanced their professional and private lives and women who feel trapped by the combination of long hours at the office and full responsibility at home. She introduces us to women in new and alternative firms, on the faculties of small public law schools, in in-house legal departments, in prosecutors’ offices and courtrooms—women who are devising new rules and legal theories to bring about change. Women Lawyers is must reading for every woman in the midst of—or contemplating—a career in the law, and for the men who work with them.

African Women

Author : Kathleen Sheldon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253027314
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book African Women written by Kathleen Sheldon and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. She provides rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. Sheldon's work profiles elite women, as well as those in leadership roles, traders and market women, religious women, slave women, women in resistance movements, and women in politics and development. The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women's roles in the history of Africa.

A Woman’s View

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819562913
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book A Woman’s View written by Jeanine Basinger and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-23 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this highly readable and entertaining book, Jeanine Basinger shows how the "woman's film" of the 30s, 40s, and 50s sent a potent mixed message to millions of female moviegoers. At the same time that such films exhorted women to stick to their "proper" realm of men, marriage, and motherhood, they portrayed -- usually with relish -- strong women playing out liberating fantasies of power, romance, sexuality, luxury, even wickedness...Basinger examines dozens of films -- whether melodrama, screwball comedy, musical, film noir, western, or biopic to make a persuasive case that the woman's film was a rich, complicated, and subversive genre that recognized and addressed, if covertly, the problems of women." Amazon.com viewed 7/31/2020.

Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers

Author : Jill Norgren
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479805998
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers written by Jill Norgren and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.

A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV

Author : Peter Robson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509905707
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A Transnational Study of Law and Justice on TV written by Peter Robson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines law and justice on television in different countries around the world. It provides a benchmark for further study of the nature and extent of television coverage of justice in fictional, reality and documentary forms. It does this by drawing on empirical work from a range of scholars in different jurisdictions. Each chapter looks at the raw data of how much "justice" material viewers were able to access in the multi-channel world of 2014 looking at three phases: apprehension (police), adjudication (lawyers), and disposition (prison/punishment). All of the authors indicate how television developed in their countries. Some have extensive public service channels mixed with private media channels. Financing ranges from advertising to programme sponsorship to licensing arrangements. A few countries have mixtures of these. Each author also examines how "TV justice" has developed in their own particular jurisdiction. Readers will find interesting variations and thought-provoking similarities. There are a lot of television shows focussed on legal themes that are imported around the world. The authors analyse these as well. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in law, popular culture, TV, or justice and provides an important addition to the literature due to its grounding in empirical data.