Law and Film: Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion

This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of both fields.

The contributors to this book consider the need to turn to film and what this means for how we come to understand law and its absences. The chapters explore a variety of narratives, aesthetics, cinematic epistemologies and legal phenomena; from assessing law in social debates to film as legal critique, from notions of justice to contemplations on evi...