| Description |
xviii, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Myth and meaning : Francis Ford Coppola and popular response to the Godfather trilogy / David Ray Papke -- Print the legend : violence and recognition in the man who shot Liberty Valence / Cheyney Ryan -- Through the great Depression on horseback : legal themes in Western films of the 1930s / Francis M. Nevins -- Framed / Richard K. Sherwin -- The laws of the game : Jean Renoir, La Regle du jeu / Tom Conley -- Capra's constitution / John Denvir -- Popular culture/popular justice / Anthony Chase -- Morality and liberal legal culture : Woody Allen's crimes and misdemeanors / Judith Grant -- Rewriting history with lightning : race, myth, and Hollywood in the legal Pantheon / Margaret Russell -- Celluloid sovereignty : Hollywood's "history" of native Americans / Terry Wilson -- public execution / Andrew J. Mckenna -- Class action : one view of gender and law in popular culture / Mark Tushnet -- Outlaw women / Elizabeth Spelman and Martha Minow -- Law noir / Norman Rosenberg. |
| Subject |
Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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| Added Author |
Denvir, John, 1942-
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| ISBN |
0252022319 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0252065352 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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