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Stanley Fish focuses on well-known movies (such as Anatomy of a Murder, Twelve Angry Men, or A Man for All Seasons) that take law as their subject, and explains how legal doctrine is made into the stuff of plot and character. A book for movie lovers written in an accessible and engaging style.
Introduction : It's against the law -- Liberal heroism and reasonable doubt : 12 Angry Men -- The law as blind machine : The Wrong Man -- The law emerges from violence : The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and High Noon -- The law as the object of manipulation : Beyond a Reasonable Doubt and Witness for the Prosecution -- Natural law versus positive law : Judgment at Nuremberg -- The law's dogma and religious dogma : Inherit the Wind -- Visible and spectral evidence : The Crucible -- Man-made law as a refuge from both the Devil's assaults and God's commands : A Man for All Seasons -- Law as craft : Anatomy of a Murder -- Sex, class, and class action : North Country -- Speech, radical innocence, and the law : Billy Budd -- The law and storytelling : Amistad -- Free speech for good or ill : The People vs Larry Flynt and Absence of Malice -- Poetry Is against the law : Howl - Conclusion : No more delivered than promised.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures
legal doctrine, film, liberalism, legal process
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2024