Table of Contents for Law on the Screen

Law on the Screen
Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
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Law on the Screen

Contributors

On Film and Law: Broadening the Focus, by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey

Part I. Studies of Representation

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), by Orit Kamir

The Racial-Spatial Order and the Law: Devil in a Blue Dress, by Michael J. Shapiro

Anti-Oedipus, Lynch: Initiatory Rites and the Ordeal of Justice, by Richard K. Sherwin

Part II. Studies of Reception

Reproducing a Trial: Evidence and Its Assessment in Paradise Lost, by Jennifer L.

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A Case for Corrective Criticism: A Civil Action, by Diane Waldman

"Everyone Went Wild Over It": Film Audiences, Political Cinema, and Mr. Smith Goes

to Washington, by Eric Smoodin

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