Keywords
Law and justice in popular culture, legal procedure in cinema, visual representation of legal culture
Abstract
Two main theses are presented here. The first is that there is a conceptual resemblance between the ways in which messages are transmitted in the courtroom and the ways in which they are transmitted in the cinema. The second is that the evolution of legal procedure is being influenced by developments taking place in visual culture generally and film specifically. Taken together, these theses lead to the conclusion that the development of a theory of ‘‘law-as-film’’ can provide insights into the contemporary practice of law that might otherwise be overlooked.
Recommended Citation
Shulamit Almog and Ely Aharonson, "Law as Film: Representing Justice in the Age of Moving Images" (2004) 3: 1 CJLT.
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