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The Celluloid Courtroom: A History of Legal Cinema
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by Ross D. Levi
Sales Rank: 1746156
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 192 pages
Published by: Praeger Publishers March 30, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0275982335
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0275982331
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
Weighs: 15.2 ounces
Product Review
The author looks at American courtroom films and categorizes them according to "parties to the action": client, judge, jury, lawyer. He argues that these films reveal that, despite Americans' recognition that corruption is possible within the legal system, as a population they also tend to (want to) believe that justice triumphs.[a] useful compendium of a particular film genre over the past thirty years. Extensive film collections.Choice
The Celluloid Courtroom will be a useful handbook for aficionados--and hopefully, a springboard for future studies.Film International
[L]ooks in turn at the major players in such films - the client, judge, jury, and the lawyer - and looks at how their portrayals have changed over the course of cinematic history.Reference & Research Book News/Art Book News Annual
Product Description
The genre of legal cinema is an extensive and revealing one: it is a body of films that depicts lawyers, clients, criminals, judges, and juries, often not as they actually are, but as we would like them to be. The idealized courtroom of many legal movies tells us a great deal about what we think of our justice system and what we want it to reflect about America, but the films in the genre vary widely in how they do this. From To Kill a Mockingbird to Liar, Liar, from A Time to Kill to Twelve Angry Men, we see certain stereotypes repeating themselves again and again: the judge as stern referee, the jury as an ultimately fair body of decisionmakers, the lawyer as hardworking and passionate fighter for the underdog. In this new and comprehensive study of this understudied category of film, author Ross D. Levi argues that, contrary to popular belief, legal movies show us a system that is far more fair than our actual one, with corruption downplayed and greed made subordinate to compassion and compromise. These are films that have affected as much as reflected the American justice system, as we enter the courts hoping, often against hope, that they will be something like what we've seen in the movies. With a comprehensive filmography, penetrating analysis--both legal and cinematic--and engaging and enlightening discussion, The Celluloid Courtroom is an indispensable guide to a key aspect of American movies and American justice.
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