Legal reelism : movies as legal texts /
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| Imprint: | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996. |
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| Description: | xviii, 314 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2520164 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / John Denvir
- 1. Myth and Meaning: Francis Ford Coppola and Popular Response to the Godfather Trilogy / David Ray Papke
- 2. Print the Legend: Violence and Recognition in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / Cheyney Ryan
- 3. Through the Great Depression on Horseback: Legal Themes in Western Films of the 1930s / Francis M. Nevins
- 4. Framed / Richard K. Sherwin
- 5. The Laws of the Game: Jean Renoir, La Regle du Jeu / Tom Conley
- 6. Capra's Constitution / John Denvir
- 7. Popular Culture/Popular Justice / Anthony Chase
- 8. Morality and Liberal Legal Culture: Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors / Judith Grant
- 9. Rewriting History with Lightning: Race, Myth, and Hollywood in the Legal Pantheon / Margaret M. Russell
- 10. Celluloid Sovereignty: Hollywood's "History" of Native Americans / Terry Wilson
- 11. Public Execution / Andrew J. McKenna
- 12. Class Action: One View of Gender and Law in Popular Culture / Mark Tushnet
- 13. Outlaw Women: Thelma and Louise / Elizabeth V. Spelman and Martha Minow
- 14. Law Noir / Norman Rosenberg.