Law and film / edited by Stefan Machura and Peter Robson.

Oxford : Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

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Lawyers -- motion pictures.

Motion pictures.

Law and film: introduction / Stefan Machura and Peter Robson

American criminal trial films: an overview of their development, 1930-2000 / Nicole Rafter

Hero or villian? Cinematic lawyers and the delivery of justice / Steve Greenfield

Cape Fear - two versions and two visions separated by thirty years / Gerald J. Thain

Myth and law in the films of John Ford / Michael Böhnke

The German courtroom film during the Nazi period: ideology, aesthetics, historical content / Peter Drexler

The social issue courtroom drama as an expression of American popluar culture / Matthias Kuzina

Patterns of courtroom justice / Jessica Silbey

Law in film: globalizing the Hollywood courtroom drama / Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrich

Why a jury trial is more like a movie than a novel / Phil Meyer

Adapting the modern law novel: filming John Grisham / Peter Robson

Borders and boundaries: locating the law in film / Guy Osborn.

Published simultaneously as Vol. 28 No. 1 of Journal of Law and Society.

0631228160

176p.: ill.