Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: With the advent of film studies in the United States, there has been a growing interest in legal academic circles in lawyer, legal, and courtroom films. In Professor Elkins’s essay, we find a claim that Hollywood lawyer films have pedagogical value.With the emerging interest in lawyer and legal films, there is virtually nothing written about what or how films are to be taught, and what their value might be. Professor Elkins provides the basic axioms for a humanistic approach to reading lawyer films, an approach that does not require an extensive background in film studies or film theory.
Source: Les Cahiers de l APLIUT
DOI: 10.4000/apliut.2559
Author: James Elkins
Institution: West Virginia University
Language: French
Topic: Law in Society and Culture
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1541872004