Law''s Moving Image

This book is an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of law and film. It explores interconnections that are usually ignored between law and film.

List of contents

Heavenly Justice; Once More Unto the Breach: Branagh's Henry V, Blair's War and the UK Constitution; 'It's the Vibe!': The Common Law Imaginary Down Under; Rebel Without a Cause?; Toy Law, Toy Joy, Toy Story 2; On Realism and the Law Film: the Case of Oscar Wilde; Trial as Documentary: Images of Eichmann; Film and Law: In Search of a Critical Method; Endless Street, Pursued by Ghosts; 'Into the Blue': The Cinematic Possibility of Judgment with Passion; Not Harmless Entertainment: State Censorship and Cinema in the Transitional Era; The Natives are Looking: Cinema and Censorship in Colonial India; Rethinking Regulation: Violence and 1967 Hollywood; Cultural 'Patronage' Versus Cultural 'Defence': Alternatives to National Film Policies; How the Movie Moguls Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New Technologies: Copyright and Film; A More Developed Sign: the Legal Mediation of Things.

About the author

Leslie J Moran, Emma Sandon, Elena Loizidou, Ian Christie all Birkbeck College, University of London.

Summary

This book is an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of law and film. It explores interconnections that are usually ignored between law and film.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie (Birkbeck Moran, Leslie Loizidou Moran
• Assisted by: Ian Christie (Editor), Christie Ian (Editor), Elena Loizidou (Editor), Loizidou Elena (Editor), Leslie Moran (Editor), Emma Sandon (Editor), Sandon Emma (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138153196
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15319-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Media & the Law, LAW / Entertainment, Entertainment & media law, Entertainment and media law