Framed: Women in Law and FilmDuke University Press, 19. 1. 2006 - 324 strán (strany) Some women attack and harm men who abuse them. Social norms, law, and films all participate in framing these occurrences, guiding us in understanding and judging them. How do social, legal, and cinematic conventions and mechanisms combine to lead us to condemn these women or exonerate them? What is it, exactly, that they teach us to find such women guilty or innocent of, and how do they do so? Through innovative readings of a dozen movies made between 1928 and 2001 in Europe, Japan, and the United States, Orit Kamir shows that in representing “gender crimes,” feature films have constructed a cinematic jurisprudence, training audiences worldwide in patterns of judgment of women (and men) in such situations. Offering a novel formulation of the emerging field of law and film, Kamir combines basic legal concepts—murder, rape, provocation, insanity, and self-defense—with narratology, social science methodologies, and film studies. Framed not only offers a unique study of law and film but also points toward new directions in feminist thought. Shedding light on central feminist themes such as victimization and agency, multiculturalism, and postmodernism, Kamir outlines a feminist cinematic legal critique, a perspective from which to evaluate the “cinematic legalism” that indoctrinates and disciplines audiences around the world. Bringing an original perspective to feminist analysis, she demonstrates that the distinction between honor and dignity has crucial implications for how societies construct women, their social status, and their legal rights. In Framed, she outlines a dignity-oriented, honor-sensitive feminist approach to law and film. |
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Conceptual Framework | xx |
Rashomon Japan 1950 Construction of Woman as Guilty Object | 43 |
Pandoras Box Germany 1928 Exorcising PandoraLilith in the Weimar Republic | 73 |
Blackmail England 1929 Hitchcocks Sound and the New Womans Guilty Silence | 90 |
Anatomy of a Murder USA 1959 Hollywoods HeroLawyer Revives the Unwritten Law | 112 |
Adams Rib USA 1949 Hollywoods Female Lawyer and Family Values Read with Disclosure and Legally Blonde | 135 |
Nuts USA 1987 The Mad Womans Day in Court | 160 |
Death and the Maiden USA 1994 Challenging Trauma with Feminine Judgment and Justice Read with The Piano | 185 |
A Question of Silence Netherlands 1982 Feminist Community as Revolution Read against A Jury of Her Peers | 217 |
Set it Off USA 1996 Minority Women at the Point of No Return | 243 |
High Heels Spain 1991 Almodovars Postmodern Transgression | 264 |
Notes | 285 |
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