Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966-
2. Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971-
3. Greek, Cecil E.

Description

1. x, 527 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series statement

1. The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities

Uniform title

1. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.

Subject

1. Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures
2. Crime films > History and criticism
3. Law on television
4. Crime on television
5. Justice, Administration of, on television
6. Law in motion pictures

Contents

1. Introduction: Attempting to frame law and crime: an experiment in interdisciplinary commensurability -- Cinematic histories and real/reel dystopias of law and crime. Law and cinema movement / Stefan Machura -- The crisis of law and the imaginary of disaster: reading post-apocalyptic films / Majid Yar -- A Canadian perspective on documentary film: drug addict / Susan Boyd -- Jurisprudence in international films. In the land of blood and honey: what's fair or just in love and war crimes? lessons for transitional justice / Carrie Menkel-Meadow -- Multifocal judgment, intersecting legal proceedings and conservativism: a separation and Rashomon / Orit Kamir -- Beyond the courtroom: vigilantism, revenge, and rape-revenge films in the cinema of justice / Peter Robson -- Law and crime in American film and television. Alfred Hitchcock's visions of guilt and innocence / Mathieu Deflem -- Heroes for hard times: The wire's "good police" / John Denvir -- Documenting crime: genre, verity, and filmmaker as avenger / Matthew Sorrento -- Screening the law: ideology and law in American popular culture / Naomi Mezey -- Film, crime, and the social world. Race and serial killing in the media: the case of Wayne Williams / Caroline Joan S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez -- Globalization and the rise of the behemoth: a study in gothic criminology / Cecil Greek -- A depiction of evil, order and chaos: the symbiotic relationship of law and the supernatural in film and television / Farah Britto and Cecil Greek -- From reel to real: conducting filmic ethnography in criminology / Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Anders Petersen -- Epistemology and ethics in films of law and crime. Fact, fantasy, fallacy: division between fanciful musings and factual mutterings / Jon Frauley -- Tobias Beecher: law as a refuge from uncertainty? / Steve Greenfield -- Nationalities, histories, rhetorics: real/reel representations of the Holocaust and Holocaust trials and a poethics of film and law / Caroline Joan S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez.

Call number

1. MFL 16-3628

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Framing law and crime : an interdisciplinary anthology / edited by Caroline Joan "Kay" S. Picart, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Cecil Greek.

Publisher

1. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]

Copyright date

1. ©2016

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
2. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press series in law, culture, and the humanities.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Picart, Caroline Joan, 1966- editor.
2. Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971- editor.
3. Greek, Cecil E., editor.

Other form:

1. Online version: Framing law and crime. Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2016 9781611477061 (DLC) 2015048399

LCCN

1. 2015044314

ISBN

1. 9781611477054 hardcover alkaline paper
2. 1611477050 hardcover alkaline paper

Research call number

1. MFL 16-3628