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- Abramson, J.
- "The jury and popular culture." DePaul Law Review v. 50 no. 2 (Winter 2000) p. 497-523
- Asimow, Michael
- "Bad Lawyers in the Movies." Nova Law Review
Volume 24, Number 2 (Winter 2000)
- Asimow, Michael
- "Embodiment of evil: law firms in the movies." UCLA Law Review v. 48 no. 6 (August 2001) p. 1339-92
- Asimow, Michael
- "A Free Soul: Drunk Lawyers in the Movies." UCLA Law School (June 1998)
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- Asimow, Michael
- "Lawyers as fallen idols: whatever happened to our golden image?" The National Law Journal Feb 8, 1999 v22 i24 pA22 col 1 (22 col in)
- "Motion picture portrayals of lawyers since the 1970s have been of unhappy human beings lacking in either ethics or competence at their jobs. The exceptions have been films which tell true stories, such as "In the Name of the Father" or "A Civil Action," films dealing with social or political problems, AIDS in "Philadelphia" or capital punishment in "The Chamber." Negative portrayals of lawyers far outnumber the positive ones in entertainment-oriented pictures. This negative depiction coincides with a worsening in the public's opinion of lawyers." [Expanded Academic Index]
- Asimow, Michael
- "What's on the tube? For the most part, a favorable view of lawyers." (Brief Article) The National Law Journal March 15, 1999 v21 i29 pA26 col 1 (22 col in)
- Bailey Frankie Y.; Pollock, Joycelyn M. and Schroeder, Sherry
- "The best defense: images of female attorneys in popular films." In: Popular culture, crime, and justice / Frankie Y. Bailey, Donna C. Hale. Belmont: Wadsworth Pub. Co., c1998. Contemporary issues in crime and justice series.
 Main Stack HV6789.B25 1998
- Berets, Ralph
- "Changing Images of Justice in American Films." Legal Studies Forum Vol 20, 473 (1996)
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- Berets, Ralph
- "Lawyers in Film." Legal Studies Forum
Volume 22, Number 1/2/3 (1998)
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- Bergman, Paul
- "The Movie Lawyers Guide to Redemptive Legal Practice." UCLA Law Review Vol 48, 1393 (2001)
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- Bergman, Paul.
- Reel justice: the courtroom goes to the movies / Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow. Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, c1996.
- Main Stack PN1995.9.J8.B47 1996
- Beverly, William
- On the lam: narratives of flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America / William Beverly.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, c2003.
- Main Stack PS374.F83.B48 2003
- Black, David A.
- Law in film: resonance and representation / David A. Black.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1999.
- Main Stack PN1995.9.J8.B63 1999
- Bohnke, Michael
- "Myth and Law in the Films of John Ford." Journal of Law and Society vol 28, 47 (2001)
- "Case studies: courtroom drama." (motion pictures)
The Economist (US) Jan 9, 1993 v326 n7793 p78(2) (568 words)
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- Chase, Anthony.
- "Civil action cinema." Law Review of Michigan State University Detroit College of Law v. 1999 no. 4 (Winter 1999) p. 945-57
- Chase, Anthony.
- "Lawyers and Popular Culture: A Review of Mass Media Portrayals of American Attorneys."
American Bar Foundation Research Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2. (Spring, 1986), pp. 281-300.
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- Chase, Anthony.
- Movies on trial: the legal system on the silver screen New York: New Press: Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2002.
- Main Stack PN1995.9.J8.C49 2002
- Chisholm, Patricia
- "The public on lawyers - guilty: Books and movies are giving the legal profession a bad name." Maclean's 106: 68 (Oct. 11, 1993)
- Clover, Carol J.
- "'God Bless Juries!'" In: Refiguring American film genres: history and theory / Nick Browne, editor. pp: 255-77 Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998.
- Grad Svcs PN1993.5.U6.R443 1998
- Electronic version (UCB users only): http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8j49p1ft/
- Main Stack PN1993.5.U6.R443 1998
- Moffitt PN1993.5.U6.R443 1998
- Clover, Carol J.
- "Judging Audiences: The Case of the Trial Movie."
In: Reinventing film studies / edited by Christine Gledhill and Linda Williams. pp: 244-64 London: Arnold ; New York: Co-published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Grad Svcs PN1995.R455 2000 Non-circulating; may be used only in Graduate Services.
- Main Stack PN1995.R455 2000
- PFA PN1995.R455 2000 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating
- Clover, Carol J.
- "Movie juries." DePaul Law Review v. 48 no. 2 (Winter 1998) p. 389-405
- Denvir, J.
- "Law, Lawyers, Film & (and) Television." Legal Studies Forum
Volume 24, Number 2 (2000)
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- Dershowitz, Alan M.
- "Legal eagles; ten tapes that have their day in court." (includes list of top courtroom drama movies)
American Film Nov 1986 v12 p59(3)
- Dooling, Richard .
- "Sue Hollywood for false representation!" (glamorous portrayals of attorneys)(Brief Article) The National Law Journal Sept 1, 1997 v19 n1 pA18 col 1 (21 col in)
- Dow, D. R.
- "Fictional documentaries and truthful fictions: the death penalty in recent American film." Constitutional Commentary v. 17 no. 3 (Winter 2000) p. 511-53
- Epstein, Michael M.
- "The evolving lawyer image on television." Television Quarterly Wntr 1994 v27 n1 p18(9)
- "A comparison of the TV shows 'Perry Mason' and 'L.A. Law' shows a change in the portrayals of lawyers on television. 'Perry Mason' ran until 1966, and its character fit the ideal of the lawyer as conflict mediator. Perry was a competent generalist, and served as both therapist and detective. By contrast, the lawyers of the 1990s show 'L.A. Law' are fallible specialists who do not perform moral services. The actual practice of law fits between these two extreme portrayals." [Expanded Academic Index]
- Friedman, Lawrence M.
- "Law, Lawyers, and Popular Culture."
The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 98, No. 8, Symposium: Popular Legal Culture. (Jun., 1989), pp. 1579-1606.
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- Greenfield, Steve; Osborn, Guy
- "Where Cultures Collide: The Characterization of Law and Lawyers in Film." International Journal of the Sociology of Law Volume 23, Issue 2, June 1995, Pages 107-130
- "An earlier version of this article was presented at the 1994 Law and Society annual meeting in Arizona and was accompanied by a compilation of film clips that formed part of the presentation of the paper. This article has two constituent pieces, firstly the substantive text, and secondly a filmography which gives a brief description of the films utilized. The filmography (Appendix 1) replaces the clips that were used in the paper presentation; those readers unfamiliar with any of the films discussed may benefit from turning firstly to the filmography."
- Haddad, T.
- "Silver tongues on the silver screen: legal ethics in the movies." Nova Law Review v. 24 no. 2 (Winter 2000) p. 673-700
- Harding, R. M.
- "Celluloid death: cinematic depictions of capital punishment." University of San Francisco Law Review v. 30 (Summer 1996) p. 1167-79
- In the grip of the law: trials, prisons, and the space between
- Edited by Monika Fludernik and Greta Olson. Frankfurt am main; New York : P. Lang, 2004.
- Main Stack PR408.L38.I5 2004
- Kamir, O.
- "Feminist law and film: imagining judges and justice." Chicago-Kent Law Review v. 75 no. 3 (2000) p. 899-931
- Kamir, Orit
- "Anatomy of Hollywood's Hero-Lawyer: A Law-and-Film Study of the Western Motifs, Honor-Based Values and Gender Politics Underlying Anatomy of a Murder's Construction of the Lawyer Image." Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 2005, 35, 1, 67-105
- "Anatomy of a Murder, a beloved, highly influential, seemingly liberal 1959 classic law-film seems to appropriate some of the fading western genre's features & social functions, intertwining the professional-plot western formula with a hero-lawyer variation on the classic western hero character, America's 19th century archetypal True Man. In so doing, Anatomy revives the western genre's honor code, embracing it into the hero-lawyer law-film. Concurrently, it accommodates the development of cinematic imagery of the emerging, professional elite groups, offering the public the notion of the professional super-lawyer, integrating legal professionalism with natural justice. In the course of establishing its Herculean lawyer, the film constitutes its female protagonist as a potential threat, subjecting her to a cinematic judgment of her sexual character & reinforcing the honor-based notion of woman's sexual-guilt." [Sociological Abstracts]
- Kamir, Orit
- Framed : women in law and film
Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- MAIN: PN1995.9.W6 K235 2006
- Kamir, Orit
- "Why law-and-film and what does it actually mean? A perspective."
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 255-278, 2005
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- "In this article, the author sets out to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the relationships between law and film by exploring three theoretical perspectivesfirst, that law, and the operation of the legal system more specifically, actually parallels films modes of social operations; second, that films can prompt viewer-enacted judgments; and third, that films can operate as a form of popular jurisprudence. The first part opens with a brief overview of law-and-film scholarship and outlines the authors suggested conceptualization of the law-and-film terrain. This framework defines three distinct perspectives on law-and-film that, the author believes, capture much of the law-and-film enterprise. The final three parts of the article present and explore these perspectives in more detail, illustrating them with specific law-film examples. The paper concludes with a brief reference to the benefits of using law-and-film in teaching." [Communication Abstracts]
- Kempf, D. G. J.
- "Reel courtroom dramas." Litigation v. 27 no. 3 (Spring 2001) p. 25-30, 71
- Kuzina, Matthias
- "The Social Issue Courtroom Drama as an Expression of American Popular Culture." Journal of Law and Society Vol. 28, No. 1, Law and Film (Mar., 2001), pp. 79-96
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- Langford, David A. and Peter Robson
- "The representation of the professions in the cinema: the case of construction engineers and lawyers." Construction Management & Economics Volume 21, Number 8 / December 2003
Pages: 799 - 807
- UC users only
- "This paper considers how popular culture, especially the cinema, depicts two professions; namely, engineering and the law. It argues that despite the large number of engineers working in the developed economies their lives and their work are seldom portrayed in cinema. In contrast, the legal profession is ubiquitous in its presence in film. The paper seeks to use different forms of analysis, such as culturalism, Marxism, structuralism, feminism and post-modernism when applied to film theory in settings where engineers and lawyers are depicted. The paper makes a distinction between the presentation of the work of engineers and lawyers in 'real life' and cinematic form. The process of engineering in real life is visible yet in cinematic terms it is ignored. In contrast, the legal process is invisible in real life but has high dramatic content in the cinema. When considering the products of the two professions, engineering produces tangible products whilst law produces intangible yet highly cerebral discourses. Yet, in the cinema, the engineering product is a backcloth for other messages where in law the legal product provides a backcloth for a central and dominant message about the legal process. The conclusion is that engineers have to re-engineer themselves to be more visible in society if they are to be regarded as cinematic heroes." [Taylor & Francis]
- Laster, Kathy.
- The drama of the courtroom / Kathy Laster, with Krista Breckweg and John King. Leichhardt, N.S.W.: Federation Press, 2000.
- Main Stack PN1995.9.J8.L37 2000
- Law and film
- Edited by Stefan Machura and Peter Robson. Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
- Main Stack PN1995.9.J8.L38 2001
- Contents from Google books
- "Law in Film/Film in Law: Symposium." Vermont Law Review v. 28 no. 4 (Summer 2004) p. 797-973
- Law on the screen
- Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
- MAIN: PN1995.9.J8 L42 2005; View current status of this item
- Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip051/2004022528.html
- Law's Moving Image
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- Edited by Leslie J. Moran ... [et al.].
London ; Portland, Or.: Cavendish Pub., 2004.
- Main Stack: PN1995.9.J8 L397 2004
- Legal reelism: movies as legal texts
- Edited by John Denvir.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1996.
- Main Stack PN1995.9.J8.L45 1996
- Moffitt PN1995.9.J8.L45 1996
- Contents from Google books
- Lenz, Timothy O.
- Changing images of law in film & television crime stories / Timothy O. Lenz. New York: P. Lang, c2003. Politics, media & popular culture ; v. 7
- Main Stack PN1995.9.J8.L46 2003
- Levi, Ross D.
- The celluloid courtroom : a history of legal cinema
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, c2005.
- MAIN: PN1995.9.J8 L48 2005
- Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004028024.html
- Lucia, Cynthia.
- Framing female lawyers : women on trial in film Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.
- MAIN: PN1995.9.J8 L83 2005; View current status of this item
- Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip052/2004024847.html
- Lucia, Cynthia.
- "Women on Trial: The Female Lawyer in the Hollywood Courtroom." Cineaste. 19(2-3):32-37. 1992
- Machura, Stefan & Peter Robson
- "Law and Film: Introduction." Journal of Law and Society Volume 28 Page 1 - March 2001
- UC Berkeley users only
- "The courtroom drama is a prominent film genre. Most of the movies in this category are Hollywood productions, dealing with the legal system in the United States of America. What they have in common is that essential parts of their stories take place in court. These movies have a tremendous influence on the public?s concept of justice even though very few of them accurately reflect legal reality. Anyone with legal training who watches films of this sort will notice in them all sorts of absurdities which are not thoroughly investigated in this paper. Our concern here is to inquire why even movies that take place in continental Europe follow patterns of the American system and also why certain elements from American movies are repeated over and over again." [Ingenta]
- Marek, Joan Gershen.
- "The Practice' and 'Ally McBeal': a new image for women lawyers on television." (Critical Essay)
Journal of American Culture Spring 1999 v22 i1 p77(8)
- Margolick, David.
- "The cinematic law firm of greedy, vain & immoral." (analysis of how attorneys are portrayed in motion pictures) David Margolick. The New York Times July 4, 1993 v142 s2 pH9(N) pH9(L) col 1 (44 col in)
- Marks, P. D.
- "Magic in the movies: do courtroom scenes have real-life parallels?" Journal (New York State Bar Association) v. 73 no. 5 (June 2001) p. 40-2
- Mezey, N.
- "Screening the Law: Ideology and Law In American Popular Culture." Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts v. 28 no. 2 (Winter 2005) p. 91-185
- Nevins, F. M.
- "Reconnoitering Juriscinema's First Golden Age: Law and Lawyers in Film, 1928-1934." Vermont Law Review v. 28 no. 4 (Summer 2004) p. 915-55
- Osborn G.
- "Borders and Boundaries: Locating the Law in Film."
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 28, Number 1, March 2001, pp. 164-176(13)
- UC Berkeley users only
- "The essay examines the emergence of law and film in the curricula of law schools in the context of Britain. It outlines the development of legal education in England and Wales and the relationship between legal education and training. It notes the broadening out of the syllabus to encompass more politicized courses taught within their socio-economic context like family law and labour law. From this shift of academic focus the politically contextual has extended to the cultural context. The relationship between law and culture both in literature and in other areas has been the end result of this relaxation of focus on professional education. Finally, the precise nature of law and film and its boundaries are discussed." [Ingenta]
- Papke, D. R.
- "Conventional wisdom: the courtroom trial in American popular culture." Marquette Law Review v. 82 no. 3 (Spring 1999) p. 471-89
- Papke, D. R.
- "Crusading Hero, Devoted Teacher, and Sympathetic Failure: The Self-image of the Law Professor in Hollywood Cinema and in Real Life, Too." Vermont Law Review v. 28 no. 4 (Summer 2004) p. 957-73
- Papke, D. R.
- "How does the law look in the movies?" Legal Studies Forum v. 27 no. 1 (2003) p. 439-47
- Papke, D. R.
- "Law, cinema, and ideology: Hollywood legal films of the 1950s." UCLA Law Review v. 48 no. 6 (August 2001) p. 1473-93
- Penney, S.
- "Mass Torts, Mass Culture: Canadian Mass Tort Law and Hollywood Narrative Film." Queen's Law Journal v. 30 no. 1 (Fall 2004) p. 205-59
- Porter, Rebecca.
- "Lawyers on the big screen: consider whether moviegoing jurors buy a ticket for an imitation of life or a large cup of hot buttered entertainment. Trial March 2002 v38 i3 p54(6) Full-text available online (UCB users only)
- Rafter, Nicole Hahn
- "American Criminal Trial Films: An Overview of Their Development, 1930?2000."
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 28, Number 1, March 2001, pp. 9-24(16)
Full-text available online (UCB users only)
- "The history of American trial films ? and I am speaking of trial films in general at the moment, not of the sub-division of criminal trial films ? has been shaped both by changes in public attitudes toward law and lawyers and by shifts in viewer tastes. These same factors have necessitated changes in the way we define ?American trial films?. In earlier years one could recognize a trial film with relative ease: it was a drama in which a heroic lawyer or lawyer surrogate solved the film?s dilemmas in the course of a civil or criminal trial, usually a trial held within a courtroom. Contemporary movies, in contrast, are more interested in action than in debate and oratory, and they are more cynical about the effectiveness of legal processes. Thus they tend to embed a short trial scene in a longer adventure story, and they seldom depict lawyers as heroes on the grand scale or courts as places where fundamental social and moral issues are settled. In sum, the trial film genre is undergoing major change, if not dissolution." [Ingenta]
- Rafter, Nicole Hahn
- Shots in the mirror: crime films and society / Nicole Rafter.
Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Main Stack PN1995.9.G3.R34 2000
- Moffitt PN1995.9.G3.R34 2000
- Rosenberg, N.
- "Hollywood on trials: courts and films, 1930-1960." Law and History Review v. 12 (Fall 1994) p. 341-67
- Rosenberg, N.
- "Looking for law in all the old traces: the movies of classical Hollywood, the law, and the
case(s) of film noir." UCLA Law Review v. 48 no. 6 (August 2001) p. 1443-71
- Shapiro, C.
- "Women lawyers in celluloid, rewrapped." Vermont Law Review v. 23 no. 2 (Winter 1998) p. 303-47
- Sheffield, R. S.
- "On film: a social history of women lawyers in popular culture 1930 to 1990." Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Journal v. 14 (1993) p. 73-114
- Sherman, Rorie
- "Small screen takes shine to lawyers." The National Law Journal Feb 4, 1991 v13 n22 p9 col 1
- Spitz, D. M.
- "Heroes or villains? Moral struggles vs. ethical dilemmas: an examination of dramatic portrayals of lawyers and the legal profession in popular culture." Nova Law Review v. 24 no. 2 (Winter 2000) p. 725-50
- Stracher, Cameron
- "Reality TV." (television shows about attorneys)
American Lawyer May 2001 v23 i5 p138 (813 words)
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- Strickland, R.
- "The cinematic lawyer: the magic mirror and the silver screen." Oklahoma City University Law Review v. 22 (Spring 1997) p. 13-23
- Sullivan, J. T.
- "Imagining the criminal law: when client and lawyer meet in the movies." University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review v. 25 no. 3 (Spring 2003) p. 665-80
- Wexman, Virginia Wright
- ""Right and Wrong; That's [Not] All There Is to It!":
Young Mr. Lincoln and American Law." Cinema Journal 44.3 (2005) 20-34
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- This essay draws on historiographic and anthropological models to explore the ways in which assumptions about the law may be deployed in works of mainstream cinema. Using Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) as an example, it argues that potentially conflicting legal paradigms can be reconciled through filmic narrative.
- Writing for Television the Legal Genre
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