Film &amp; the Law

Greenfield, Steve

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“…In turn, legal reality is input, consciously or unconsciously, from social images constructed in films (Greenfield, Osborn, & Robson, 2001). Both together enable the "normal" society (i.e., young society) to delineate the boundaries of "old age."…”

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“…Various questions arise, such as, what role does the law play in films, how do films portray the legal profession, what are the subtexts of films that consider the law, and why are courtroom battles so popular in American cinema? Trying to answer such questions can help to increase our knowledge of the inter-relationships that exist between the law, the film industry, and society in general (Greenfield & Osborn, 1995;Greenfield et al, 2001).…”

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Bringing the Law to the Gerontological Stage: A Different Look at Movies and Old Age

Doron

2006

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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Films often portray the complexities of real-life aging issues, showing how they are apparently handled outside of and around the law or legal issues. Furthermore, films considering the aged and the social issues associated with aging also reveal how the law actually functions as a framework around and within which people develop customs, habits, and behaviors related to the issue of old age. Exposing these hidden socio-legal boundaries allows us to better understand both the films concerned and the place of law within our aging society. In an attempt to better understand these issues, this article deconstructs five relatively modern and well-known films. All feature aged protagonists, and all tell their stories against a background of legal issues that are only alluded to, and remain hidden "behind the scenes." Two main questions are addressed by this analysis: First, to what extent does the reality of old age as described in the films considered here reflect familiar social phenomena identified by empirical studies? And, second, to what extent does the legal infrastructure embedded in the narrative of these films reflect the legal regulations that govern the aged in today's society. The conclusions that arose from the analysis of the cinematic and the legal reality expressed in the films demonstrate that the current level of discourse on major issues in social gerontology ignores the importance and relevance of law. Therefore, it behooves us to "bring the Law to the gerontological stage," where the current situation as it actually exists can be analyzed and perhaps even changed.

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Bringing the Law to the Gerontological Stage: A Different Look at Movies and Old Age

Doron

2006

Int J Aging Hum Dev

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“…It is, on the face of it, no problem to select these films using specialist books (Bergman and Asimov, 1996;Greenfield et al, 2001), indices (Time Out and VideoHound have sections on courtroom dramas, law and lawyers and justice) as well as personal knowledge. This, however, elides the question of what is a 'legal film'.…”

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The representation of the professions in the cinema: the case of construction engineers and lawyers

Langford

Robson

2003

Construction Management and Economics

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This paper considers how popular culture, especially the cinema, depicts two professions; namely, engineering and the law. It argues that despite the large number of engineers working in the developed economies their lives and their work are seldom portrayed in cinema. In contrast, the legal profession is ubiquitous in its presence in film. The paper seeks to use different forms of analysis, such as culturalism, Marxism, structuralism, feminism and post-modernism when applied to film theory in settings where engineers and lawyers are depicted. The paper makes a distinction between the presentation of the work of engineers and lawyers in 'real life' and cinematic form. The process of engineering in real life is visible yet in cinematic terms it is ignored. In contrast, the legal process is invisible in real life but has high dramatic content in the cinema. When considering the products of the two professions, engineering produces tangible products whilst law produces intangible yet highly cerebral discourses. Yet, in the cinema, the engineering product is a backcloth for other messages where in law the legal product provides a backcloth for a central and dominant message about the legal process. The conclusion is that engineers have to re-engineer themselves to be more visible in society if they are to be regarded as cinematic heroes

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“…Available research has focused on representations of legal doctrine, lawyers, juries, litigants, defendants and courts in film (e.g. Denvir, 1996;Greenfield et al, 2001) as well as on more technical legal aspects, for example miscarriages of justice and the way in which these are portrayed in news media (Nobles & Schiff, 2000, 2004. Another established tradition, most notably in the field of law and psychology, is concerned with the impact of pretrial publicity on the behaviour of courtroom actors (see, for example, Greene, 1990;Freedman et al, 1998).…”

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Law as Popular Culture: Cross-disciplinary Encounters

Gies¹

2005

Continuum

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Film & the Law

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Bringing the Law to the Gerontological Stage: A Different Look at Movies and Old Age

Bringing the Law to the Gerontological Stage: A Different Look at Movies and Old Age

The representation of the professions in the cinema: the case of construction engineers and lawyers

Law as Popular Culture: Cross-disciplinary Encounters

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