/ edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey
Stanford, Calif.
: Stanford University Press,
, 2005.
264 p. 24 cm.
(Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought)
Essays originally presented at a conference entitled Law's Moving Image, held April 11-12, 2003, at Amherst College.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
On film and law : broadening the focus / Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey -- Cinematic judgment and jurisprudence : a woman's memory, recovery, and justice in a post-traumatic society (a study of Polanski's Death and the maiden) / Orit Kamir -- The racial-spatial order and the law : Devil in a blue dress / Michael J. Shapiro -- Anti-oedipus, lynch : initiatory rites and the ordeal of justice / Richard K. Sherwin -- Reproducing a trial : evidence and its assessment in Paradise lost / Jennifer L. Mnookin -- A case for corrective criticism : A civil action / Diane Waldman -- "Everyone went wild over it" : film audiences, political cinema, and Mr. Smith goes to Washington / Eric Smoodin.
Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures Congresses