Framed : women in law and film

Content: Cover13
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Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Preface --
Introduction: Conceptual Framework --
Part I: Feminist Critique of Law Films that Honor-judge Women --
1. Rashomon (Japan, 1950): Construction of Woman as Guilty Object --
2. Pandoras Box (Germany, 1928): Exorcising Pandora-Lilith in the Weimar Republic --
3. Blackmail (England, 1929): Hitchcocks Sound and the New Womans Guilty Silence --
4. Anatomy of a Murder (U.S.A., 1959): Hollywoods Hero-Lawyer Revives the Unwritten Law --
Part II Cinematic Women Demanding Judgment --
5. Adams Rib (U.S.A., 1949): Hollywoods Female Lawyer and Family Values (Read with Disclosure and Legally Blonde) --
6. Nuts (U.S.A., 1987): The Mad Womans Day in Court --
7. Death and the Maiden (U.S.A., 1994): Challenging Trauma with Feminine Judgment and Justice (Read with The Piano) --
Part III Women Resisting and Subverting Judgment --
8. A Question of Silence (Netherlands, 1982): Feminist Community as Revolution (Read against 8216
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9. Set it Off13
 (U.S.A., 1996): Minority Women at the Point of No Return --
10. High Heels (Spain, 1991): Almodovars Postmodern Transgression --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index.