Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film
Autor Cynthia Luciaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 mai 2005
In this book, Cynthia Lucia offers a sustained analysis of women lawyer films as a genre and as a site where other genres including film noir, maternal melodrama, thrillers, action romance, and romantic comedy intersect. She traces Hollywood representations of female lawyers through close readings of films from the 1949 Adam's Rib through films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Jagged Edge, The Accused, and The Client, among others. She also examines several key male lawyer films and two independent films, Lizzie Borden's Love Crimes and Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lucia convincingly demonstrates that making movies about women lawyers and the law provides unusually fertile ground for exploring patriarchy in crisis. This, she argues, is the cultural stimulus that prompts filmmakers to create stories about powerful women that simultaneously question and undermine women's right to wield authority.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292706507
ISBN-10: 0292706502
Pagini: 283
Ilustrații: 23 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292706502
Pagini: 283
Ilustrații: 23 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Cynthia Lucia is professor of Media Arts (Film and Television) at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She also serves on the editorial board of Cineaste magazine.
Cuprins
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Law Is the Law: Adam's Rib and The Verdict
- Chapter 2. Father Knows Best: Female Lawyers as Daughters in Music Box and Class Action
- Chapter 3. Female Lawyers and the Maternal: The Client and Defenseless
- Chapter 4. A Question of Genre: Jagged Edge and Guilty as Sin
- Chapter 5. Female Power and Masculine Crisis: Genre Hybrids and Dual-Focus Narratives
- Chapter 6. Genre, Gender, and Law: The Female Lawyer Narrative and Its Influence
- Chapter 7. Feminist Address and Spectatorship in The Accused, Love Crimes, and Female Perversions
- Conclusion: Female Lawyers in the Twenty-First Century
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index
Recenzii
The book asks important questions about the seemingly taken for granted quality of feminist perspectives on gender and work, about the ways in which both the codes of law and those of genre "frame" the female lawyer, and about the persistence of anxious constructions of successful women.
Descriere
A probing look at film representations of women lawyers during the Reagan-Bush era.