Framed : women in law and film /
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| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Rashomon (Japan, 1950): construction of woman as guilty object
- Pandora's box (Germany, 1928): exorcising Pandora-Lilith in the Weimar Republic
- Blackmail (England, 1929): Hitchcock's sound and the new woman's guilty silence
- Anatomy of a murder (U.S.A., 1959): Hollywood's hero-lawyer revives the unwritten law
- Adam's rib (U.S.A., 1949): Hollywood's female lawyer and family values
- Nuts (U.S.A., 1987): the mad woman's day in court
- Death and the maiden (U.S.A., 1994): challenging trauma with feminine judgment and justice
- A question of silence (Netherlands, 1982): feminist community as revolution (read against "a jury of her peers")
- Set it off (U.S.A., 1996): minority women at the point of no return
- High heels (Spain, 1991): Almodovar's postmodern transgression.