Screening justice--the cinema of law : significant films of law, order, and social justice /
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Buffalo, New York :
William S. Hein & Company,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- The cinema of law : the magic mirror and the silver screen / Rennard Strickland, Taunya Lovell Banks
- Bringing Bogie out of the courtroom closet : law and lawyers in film / Rennard Strickland
- M (1931) and the serial killer's humanity / Mark V. Tushnet
- Savage fronteras and tribal boundaries : chasing success in Hollywood's Bordertown (1935) / Steven W. Bender
- Disorder in the court (1936) : images of lawyers and the Three Stooges / Randall Coyne
- The grapes of wrath (1940) : can justice be found on Route 66? / Lawrence A. Frolik
- The ox-bow incident (1943) : justice denied / Robert L. Felix
- Genre, gender, and jurisprudence in Adam's rib (1949) / David Ray Papke
- Tonto's revenge revisited : Jim Thorpe--all American (1951) as seen from the cutting room floor / Rennard Strickland
- Don't bogart that witness : the Caine mutiny (1954) and trial by jury / Laurence H. Winer
- On the waterfront (1954) : cheese-eating, HUAC, and the First Amendment / Jeffrey M. Shaman
- The ten commandments (1956), the movie : freedom extolled / Mary Libby Payne
- Trial as theater : Witness for the prosecution (1957) / Wayne T. Westling
- What price propaganda? When The paths of glory (1957) led but to the pulpit / Robert Barr Smith
- Why 12 angry men? (1957) : the transformative power of jury deliberations / Nancy S. Marder
- I want to live! (1958) : federal judicial values in death penalty cases : rights or punctuality of execution? / Teree E. Foster
- "Across the border--again?" : the labyrinth of law in Orson Welles's Touch of evil (1958) / Cheyney Ryan
- Compulsion (1959) : death as different / Robert W. Bennett
- Victim (1961), no more! / Dominick Vetri
- Billy Budd (1962) and mandatory sentences / Kevin W. Saunders
- To kill a mockingbird (1962) : lawyering in an unjust society / Taunya Lovell Banks
- Lord of the flies (1963) : the development of rules within an adolescent culture / Nancy B. Rapoport
- Man in the middle (1964) : unsung classic of the Warren court / Francis M. Nevins
- Welles and Jones : Kafka's The trial (1962 and 1993) and its legal significance / Leonard V. Kaplan
- The fortune cookie (1966) and "Whiplash Willie" : the image of lawyers / Steven R. Smith
- Cool hand Luke (1967) : rebellion and illusion / Osborne M. Reynolds, Jr.
- A wealth of water law, not a drop of justice : The milagro beanfield war (1988) and Chinatown (1974) / David H. Getches
- Heroism in the midst of tragedy : Judge Horton and the Scottsboro boys (1976) (TV) / Kenneth M. Murchison
- Breaker Morant (1979) / Drew L. Kershen
- Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) : family law in the movies / Michael Asimow
- Can labor law produce justice? Matewan (1987), Norma Rae (1979), and Shout Youngstown (1984) / Wythe Holt
- Worst of the worst : which, if any, circle of Hell : Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment (1983) / Michael A. Berch
- If God wanted lawyers to fly, she would have given them wings : life, lust & legal ethics in Body heat (1981) / John M. Burkoff
- Zoot suit (1981) : realism, romance and the anti-musical : film as social justice / Lenora Ledwon
- Gandhi (1982) : the spirituality of politics and suffering / Charles R. DiSalvo
- The good lawyer : The verdict (1982) / Richard D. Parker
- El Norte (1983) : immigration mythology as crossover dream / Michael A. Olivas
- Screening justice in The accused (1988) / Sherri L. Burr
- Law and rage in Do the right thing (1989) / Jeffrey L. Harrison, Sarah E. Wilson
- Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (1989) / Michael L. Richmond
- Dramatizing on film the uneasy role of the American criminal defense lawyer : The unbeliever (1989) / Carl M. Selinger
- Bonfire of the vanities (1990) : the thinking man's redneck : an upper class white man's fall from grace / Joan Vogel
- Reversal of fortune (1990), affirmation of ambiguity / Stacy Caplow
- Will boys just be Boyz n the hood (1991)? African-American directors portray a crumbling justice system in America / Justin P. Brooks
- Defending your life (1991) : due process in the afterlife / Robert C. Berring
- Deception and artifice : Thelma & Louise (1991) and the legal hermeneutic / Shirley A. Wiegand
- A few good (and angry) men (and woman) (1992) / Robert Eli Rosen
- Philadelphia (1993) : law in the city of brotherly love / Susan N. Herman
- Cold comfort : law and community in Ethan and Joel Coen's Fargo (1996) / Jeanne L. Carriere
- Giving voice to anger : the role of the lawyer in The sweet hereafter (1997) / Paul A. LeBel
- Is Chan still missing? An essay about the film Snow falling on cedars (1999) and representations of Asian Americans in U.S. films / Keith Aoki
- Whose True crime (1999) is it, anyway? (A meditation on the death penalty) / Carole Shapiro
- A dozen and one nights at the movies : a law and lawyer film festival / selected by Rennard Strickland
- Further readings on law, lawyers and social justice : narrative bibliography / Taunya Lovell Banks.