Scene of the Mass Crime - History, Film, and International Tribunals

Informationen zum Autor Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities! Cardozo School of Law! New York. He has authored ten books on legal theory! psychoanalysis! law and the visual. Christian Delage is a professor at the University of Paris 8. He also teaches at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and at Sciences Po Paris! and is a regular professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Klappentext From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia! film! in particular! has been crucial both as evidence of atrocity and as the means of publicising the proceedings. But what does film bring to justice? Can law successfully address war crimes! atrocities! genocide? This book answers these questions and many more. Zusammenfassung The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history and film. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. History! Trauma! War Crimes: Pieter Lagrou: Getting the Past Right-or the Future?; William A. Schabas: Building the Official Narrative; Henry Rousso: Competitive Narratives: An Incident at the Papon Trial; Hélène Dumas: Gacaca courts in Rwanda: A Local Justice for a Local Genocide history?; 2. Show Trials: Nicolas Werth: The Raion Trials in the USSR (1937-1938); Anne Kerlan: The Trial of the 'Gang of the Four'; Johann Chapoutot:The Nazi People's Court (1944) or the Failure of "Total Justice"; Stuart Liebman: The Majdanek Trial. The Holocaust on Trial on Film: Kazimierz Czynski's Swastyka i Szubienica (1945); 3. Khmer Rouge on Trial: Françoise Sironi: The Psychological Evaluation of Duch! A Criminal Against Humanity in Cambodia; François Roux: Pleading guilty: the case of Duch in the Khmer Rouge trial. Defending Duch; Brice Poirier: The Place and Participation of the Victims in Duch's Trial; 4. September 11! 1973/2001: Hollywood! Figures and Film;Vincent Dozol: Hollywood: Previsualization and post 9-11 style?; Constance Ortuzar: The 9-11: The Chilean Coup and its Visual Memory; Christian Delage:Visualizing 9-11; Portfolio: Peter Goodrich and Linda Mills! Edward Hillel! Richard Sherwin ...

Product details

• Authors: Christian Goodrich Delage
• Assisted by: Christian Delage (Editor), Delage Christian (Editor), Peter Goodrich (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.11.2012
• EAN: 9780415688949
• ISBN: 978-0-415-68894-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Discourses of Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, LAW / Criminal Law / General, The arts: general issues, LAW / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / World, LAW / Courts, LAW / International, LAW / Jurisprudence, General & world history, International Criminal Law, Legal History, Peace studies and conflict resolution, General and world history, Social Law, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Public international law: criminal law, Armed Conflict, Social law and Medical law, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, The arts: general topics