Links to Additional Resources
Lawyers and Film
Tortured Souls: Unhappy Laywers Viewed Through the Medium of Film
Lance McMillian, Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law][discussion of "Adams' Rib," "Anatomy of a Murder," "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Verdict," and "And Justice for All"][For the non-cinema world version of "tortured souls," see, Patrick J. Schiltz, On Being a Happy, Healthy and Ethical Member of an Unhappy, Unhealthy, and Unethical Profession, 52 Vand. L. Rev. 871 (1999)]Annotated List of Lawyer (and Law) Films
Strange Encounters: Exploring Law and Film in the Affective Register
Ruth Buchanan & Rebecca Johnson, 46 Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 33 (2009)What Screen Do You Have in Mind? Contesting the Visual Context of Law and Film Studies
Richard K. Sherwin, in Austin Sarat (ed.), Studies in Law, Politics and Society (Elsevier, 2008)
Articles & Essays: Orit Kamir
Why 'Law-and-Film' and What Does It Actually Mean
19 Continuum: J. Media & Cultural Stud. 255-278 (2005)Feminist Law and Film: Search for Imagery of Justice in Popular Culture
75 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 899 (2000)To Kill a Songbird: A Community of Women, Feminist Jurisprudence, Conscientious Objection and Revolution in A Jury of Her Peers and Contemporary Film
19 Cardozo Stud. L. & Lit. 357 (2007)Michael Clayton: Hollywood's Contemporary Hero-Lawyer: Beyond 'Outsider Within' and 'Insider Without' 42 Suffolk U. L.R. 829 (2009)
Anatomy of Hollywood's Honorable Hero-Lawyer: A Law-and-Film Study of the Western Motifs, Honor-Based Values and Gender Politics Underlying Anatomy of a Murder's Construction of the Lawyer Image 35 Stud. L. Pol. & Soc'y 35 (2005)
North Country's Hero and Her Cinematic Lawyer: Can Lawyer Films and Women's Films Merge to Launch a New Feminist Subgenre? Canadian Journal of Women in the Law, 2009
X-Raying Adam's Rib: Multiple Readings of a (Feminist?) Law-Film
22 Stud. L. Pol. & Soc'y 103 (2000)Judgment By Film: Rashomon's Socio-Legal Functions
12 Yale J. L. & Hum. 39 (2000)
Alternative and Independent Cinema
Looking Without Seeing
a Ray Carney essay (excerpts from a review of David E. James, Allegories Of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties)
Directors
Francis Ford Coppola: A Bibliography of Materials
Film Directors: "Women Filmmakers"
course syllabusBibliography: Andrew Sarris, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 (1994)
Documentaries
Film Adaptations
Neil Sinyard, Filming Literature: The Art of Screen Adaptation (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986); James R. Bennett & Richard Lindell, The Endings of Filmed Adaptations of Literature 1946-1977, 2 Studies in Popular Culture 59-76 (1979)
Capturing the Profound in Cinema History
Classics
The Greatest Films
Tom Dirk selectionsBibliographical Note: Patric M. Verrone, Culture: The 12 Best Trial Movies, 75 ABA Journal 96 (November 1989)
Film Critics (Wikipedia)
James Agee
James Berardinelli
Film History and History in Film
Film History
WikipediaHistory of the Discovery of Cinematography
A pre-history of cinemaPicturizing Race Hollywood's Censorship of Miscegenation and Production of Racial Visibility
Bibliography: Robert Clyde Allen, Film History: Theory and Practice (New York: Knopf, 1985); David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film History: An Introduction (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994); David Cook, A History of Narrative Film (New York: W.W. Norton, 3rd ed., 1996); Gerald Mast, The Movies: A Short History (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996)(Rev. and updated, Bruce F. Kawin); Charles Musser, The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (New York: Scribner, 1990); Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (ed.), The Oxford History of World Cinema (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
Film International
Contemporary Film Theory in China
Asian Film Essays
in Screening the Past
Film Magazines
Box Office Magazine
Film Pedagogy
Film Education
Created for primary and secondary teachers teaching film across the curriculum; United KingdomMetaMedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings and Media [alternative site]
Law Enforcement and Popular Movies: Hollywood as a Teaching Tool in the Classroom
Bibliography: Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn, The Empowerment of Students: The Case for Popular Film in Legal Studies, 10 (2) Focus on Law Studies 6 (1995); Norman Rosenberg, A Word is Just a Word: Bringing Classical Hollywood Films into Legal Studies Classes, 7 Focus on Law Studies 2 (1992)
Film Ratings
Film Score
Film Sound
Film Schools
Film Studies
"The Cinema Studies Specialist, Major and Minor Programs at the University of Toronto treat film primarily as a unique and powerful twentieth century art with its own traditions, history, conventions and techniques. Understanding film, its properties, methods and aesthetics, its impact on culture and society, is the basis of the Programs. They are designed to provide the non-specialist and specialist student of film with courses and sequences of courses which offer a wide variety of approaches: the history and development of cinema; film theory and critical analysis; genre study; national cinemas; the works of individual masters of cinema; interdisciplinary courses which treat film in relation to other arts and academic fields." [Statement from the University of Toronto Film Studies Program]
Film studies is a relatively new academic discipline. Bordwell dates the field as having began in the mid-1960s. [David Bordwell, "Contemporary Film Studies and the Vicissitudes of Grand Theory," in David Bordwell and Noël Carroll (ed.), Post-Theory: Reconstructing Film Studies 3-36, at 3 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996)]
Film Studies & Course Syllabi
CyberCinema
Bibliography: Jill Nelmes (ed.), An Introduction to Film Studies (New York: Routledge, 1999); John Hill & Pamela Church Gibson (eds.), Oxford Introduction to Film Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998); Warren Buckland, Teach Yourself Film Studies (1998); Susan Hayway, Cinema Studies: Key Concepts (New York: Routledge, 2000); David Bordwell & Kristin Thompson, Film Art: an Introduction (New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing, 1996); Pam Cook & Mieke Bernink (eds.), The Cinema Book (England: British Film Institute, 1999); Joanne Hollows & Mark Jancovich (eds.), Approaches to Popular Film (Manchester University Press, 1995); Richard Maltby & Ian Craven, Hollywood Cinema (Blackwell Publishers, 1995); Bernard F. Dick, Anatomy of Film (New York: Macmillian, 1998)
Filmmaking
Film Maker's Home Pages: A Resource for Filmmakers
Sisters in Cinema
A Resource Guide for and about African American Women Film MakersRecommended Reading; James Riordan, Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of a Radical Filmmaker (New York: Hyperion, 1995) (biography of Oliver Stone)
Hollywood
Beyond the Blockbuster
David Bordwell, introduction to, Film Art: An Introduction (4th ed.), co-authored with Kristin Thompson
Organizations
Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences
American Society of Cinematographers
Association of Moving Image Archivists
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Motion Picture Association of America
National Film Preservation Board
Popular Culture
Race and Ethnicity
Movies, Race, and Ethnicity
Media Resources Center, University of California, BerkeleyBlack Film Center/Archive
Indiana UniversityGender & Race in Media: Television and Film
University of Iowa Department of Communications StudiesBibliography: Justin P. Brooks, Will Boys just be Boyz in the Hood?: African-American Directors Portray a Crumbling Justice System in Urban America, 22 Oklahoma City University Law Review 1 (1997); Lester D. Friedman, (ed.), Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991); Ed Guerrero, Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993)
Reviews
Looking for film reviews? This may be the place to start. A search for "Devil's Advocate" using the Movie Review Query Engine returned 66 links to reviews of the film)
Scripts
Television and TV Lawyers
Interpreting TV
Fred Rogers and the Significance of Story
Television and the Humanities: A Selected Bibliography
Bibliography: Stephen Gillers, Taking L. A. Law More Seriously, 98 Yale L.J. 1607 (1989); Robert Eli Rosen Ethical Soap: L. A. Law and the Privileging of Character, 43 U. Miami L.R. 1229 (1989); Charles B. Rosenberg, An L. A. Lawyer Replies, 98 Yale L.J. 1625 (1989); Stephanie Goldberg, Bar Girls? Images of Women Lawyers on TV Slowly Improving, 76 ABA J. 41 (April 1990); Tino Balio (ed.), Hollywood In The Age of Television (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990) (essays tracing the history of the relationship between television and the movie industry); Paul Joseph & Sharon Carton, The Law of the Federation: Images of Law, Lawyers and the Legal System in "Star Trek: The Next Generation," 24 U. Toledo L.R. 43 (Fall 1992); Ethan Katsh, Is Television Anti-Law? An Inquiry into the Relationship between Law and Media, 7 Am. Legal S.F. 26 (1983); David S. Machlowitz, Lawyers on TV, 74 ABA J. 52 (1988); Joan Gershen Markek, The Practice and Ally McBeal: A New Image for Women Lawyers on Television?, 22 J. Am. Culture 77 (Spring 1999); Paul J. Mastrangelo, Lawyers and the Law: A Television Filmography, 8 Legal Ref. Services Quart. 135 (1988); Judith Mayne, Law and Primetime Feminism, 10 Discourse 30 (Spring-Summer 1988)
Recommend Reading: Robert C. Allen (ed.), Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Criticism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987)
Technical Aspects of Film
Theater
And Still More
ScreenSite for the Study of Film and Televisions
The Flying Inkpot's Incredible Movie Links Page
