James R. Elkins
Tuesday, August 20, 2013: Getting Started
Nine Reasons to Study Lawyer Films
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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Tuesday, September 3, 2013
[Running Time: 1 hr. 50 min.]
"Reading" Lawyer Films
On the assumption that you are continuing to orient yourself to the work of reading and writing about lawyer films, please read: "The Humanist Approach" in Tim Bywater & Thomas Sobchack, Introduction to Film Criticism: Major Critical Appraoches to Narrative Film 24-46 (New York: Longman, 1989)
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
"To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962)
The "Rotten Tomatoes" website is a useful source of reviews of the film and to secure names of the characters.[Running Time: 2 hrs. 10 mins.]
[Running Time: 2 hrs. 10 mins.]
A Lawyer Film Genre? On film genre, and the question as to whether there is a lawyer film genre: Genre
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
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Reading: Rennard Strickland, Bringing Bogie Out of the Courtroom Clost: Law and Lawyers in Film [on-line text][Running Time: 2hrs. 6 mins.]
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
"The Castle" (1997)
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
"The Sweet Hereafter" (1997)
Assigned Reading: Austin Sarat, Imagining the Law of the Father: Loss, Dread, and Mourning in The Sweet Hereafter, 34 Law & Soc'y Rev. 3 (2000)
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
"And Justice for All" (1979)
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
"Michael Clayton" (2007
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[running time: 119 mins.]
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
"Primal Fear" (1996)
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[running time: 130 mins.]
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
"Nuts" (1987)
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