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Law on the Screen AUSTIN SARAT LAWRENCE DOUGLAS MARTHA MERRILL UMPHREY Editors STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LAW ON THE SCREEN Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey Law on the Screen Edited by AUSTIN SARAT LAWRENCE DOUGLAS MARTHA MERRILL UMPHREY STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Stanford, California, 2005 Stanford University Press Stanford, California ©2005 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Law on the screen / Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey. p. cm. — (Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought) Essays originally presented at a conference entitled Law’s Moving Image, held April 11–12, 2003, at Amherst College. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 0-8047-5162-5 (alk. paper) 1. Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures—Congresses. I. Sarat, Austin. II. Douglas, Lawrence. III. Umphrey, Martha Merrill. IV. Series. pn1995.9.j8l39 2005 791.43'6554—dc22 2004022528 This book is printed on acid-free, archival-quality paper Original printing 2005 Last figure below indicates year of this printing: 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 Designed and typeset at Stanford University Press in 10/14.5 Minion To Benjamin (AS) To my boys Theo and Dash (MU) This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments The essays contained in this book were originally prepared for and presented at a conference entitled Law’s Moving Image at Amherst College on April 11– 12, 2003. We are grateful to our Amherst College colleagues Catherine Sanderson, Helen von Schmidt, Andrew Parker, Marisa Parham, and Nasser Hussain, as well as to Burlin Barr and Jessica Silbey, for their insightful com- mentary on the papers presented at that conference. We thank our students in Amherst College’s Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought for their interest in the issues addressed in this book. We would like to ex- press our appreciation for generous financial support provided by the col- lege’s Charles Hamilton Houston Forum on Law and Social Change and to Amherst’s former dean of the faculty, Lisa Raskin, for her interest and sup- port. This page intentionally left blank Contents contributors xi On Film and Law: Broadening the Focus 1 austin sarat, lawrence douglas, and martha merrill umphrey Part I. Studies of Representation Cinematic Judgment and Jurisprudence: A Woman’s Memory, Recovery, and Justice in a Post-Traumatic Society (A Study of Polanski’s Death and the Maiden) 27 orit kamir The Racial-Spatial Order and the Law: Devil in a Blue Dress 82 michael j. shapiro Anti-Oedipus, Lynch: Initiatory Rites and the Ordeal of Justice 106 richard k. sherwin Part II. Studies of Reception Reproducing a Trial: Evidence and Its Assessment in Paradise Lost 153 jennifer l. mnookin A Case for Corrective Criticism: A Civil Action 201 diane waldman “Everyone Went Wild over It”: Film Audiences, Political Cinema, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 231 eric smoodin 255
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