The Judge on the Screen - A Translation and Critical Edition

Written twenty years before other scholars started to recognize the importance of popular culture for our understanding of law, The Judge on the Screen predates by thirty years the attention to empirical studies which did not appear from other scholars until well into the twenty-first century. A classic text translated with supporting materials.

List of contents

Memories of Vincenzo Tomeo
Vincenzo Ferrari
Il Giudice Sullo Schermo: A Classic in the Study of Popular Legal Culture, Finally Reborn
Ferdinando Spina
Locating Vincenzo Tomeo's "Il Giudice Sullo Schermo" in Law and Popular Culture Scholarship: A Personal Reflection
Peter Robson

The Judge on Screen by Vincenzo Tomeo
Foreword
Preface
Chapter One: The Image of the Judge in Mass Culture
Chapter Two: The Judge and the Trial in Four Italian Films
Chapter Three: The Public Reaction to the Film: The Judge as Hero
Chapter Four: The Public Reaction to the Film: The Problem of Justice
Chapter Five: The Judge as Interpreter of Conflict
Appendices
Note on Methodology
I. In the Name of the Law
II. City on Trial
III. The Magistrate
IV. Confessions of a Police Chief
Questionnaire for the Film: The Magistrate

About the author

Peter Robson was solicitor, judge in Her Majesty's courts and tribunal service (1992 - 2022) and professor of social welfare law at the University of Strathclyde (1992 - 2019).

Product details

• Authors: Vincenzo Tomeo
• Assisted by: Peter Robson (Editor), Peter Robson (Translation)
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2024
• EAN: 9781683934172
• ISBN: 978-1-68393-417-2
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law