Theorizes the emerging field at the intersection of law and film through a detailed, feminist analysis of masterpiece films about law from around the world.
Theorizes the emerging field at the intersection of law and film through a detailed, feminist analysis of masterpiece films about law from around the world.
Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Introduction: Conceptual Framework 1 Part I. Feminist Critique of Law Films that Honor-Judge Women 1. Rashomon (Japan, 1950): Construction of Woman as Guilty Object 43 2. Pandora’s Box (Germany, 1928): Exorcising Pandora-Lilith in the Weimar Republic 73 3. Blackmail (England, 1929): Hitchcock’s Sound and the New Woman’s Guilty Silence 90 4. Anatomy of a Murder (U.S.A., 1959): Hollywood’s Hero-Lawyer Revives the Unwritten Law 112 Part II. Cinematic Women Demanding Judgment From Liberal Attitudes to Radical Feminist Jurisprudence and the Ethics of Care 5. Adam’s Rib (U.S.A., 1949): Hollywood’s Female Lawyer and Family Values (Read with Disclosure and Legally Blonde) 135 6. Nuts (U.S.A., 1987): The Mad Woman’s Day in Court 160 7. Death and the Maiden (U.S.A., 1994): Challenging Trauma with Feminine Judgment and Justice (Read with The Piano) 185 Part III. Women Resisting and Subverting Judgment Beyond Conventional Feminist Jurisprudence 8. A Question of Silence (Netherlands, 1982): Feminist Community as Revolution (Read against “A Jury of Her Peers”) 217 9. Set it Off (U.S.A., 1996): Minority Women at the Point of No Return 243 10. High Heels (Spain, 1991): Almodovar’s Postmodern Transgression 264 Notes 285 Bibliography 299 Index 313
Acknowledgments ix Preface xi Introduction: Conceptual Framework 1 Part I. Feminist Critique of Law Films that Honor-Judge Women 1. Rashomon (Japan, 1950): Construction of Woman as Guilty Object 43 2. Pandora’s Box (Germany, 1928): Exorcising Pandora-Lilith in the Weimar Republic 73 3. Blackmail (England, 1929): Hitchcock’s Sound and the New Woman’s Guilty Silence 90 4. Anatomy of a Murder (U.S.A., 1959): Hollywood’s Hero-Lawyer Revives the Unwritten Law 112 Part II. Cinematic Women Demanding Judgment From Liberal Attitudes to Radical Feminist Jurisprudence and the Ethics of Care 5. Adam’s Rib (U.S.A., 1949): Hollywood’s Female Lawyer and Family Values (Read with Disclosure and Legally Blonde) 135 6. Nuts (U.S.A., 1987): The Mad Woman’s Day in Court 160 7. Death and the Maiden (U.S.A., 1994): Challenging Trauma with Feminine Judgment and Justice (Read with The Piano) 185 Part III. Women Resisting and Subverting Judgment Beyond Conventional Feminist Jurisprudence 8. A Question of Silence (Netherlands, 1982): Feminist Community as Revolution (Read against “A Jury of Her Peers”) 217 9. Set it Off (U.S.A., 1996): Minority Women at the Point of No Return 243 10. High Heels (Spain, 1991): Almodovar’s Postmodern Transgression 264 Notes 285 Bibliography 299 Index 313
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