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james r. elkins
Lawyers and Film
Annotated List of Lawyer (and Law) Films
The Lawyer as Devil's Advocate
Edward J. Bander, Professor of Law & Law Librarian Emeritus, Suffolk UniversityEssay centering on "Liar, Liar"
Michael M. Epstein, Professor of Law, Southwestern University
School of LawThe Law Professor in Hollywood Cinema
David Ray Papke, Professor of Law, Marquette University
Jurisprudence and Film
Using Films in Criminal Law
Philip N. Meyer, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
(with Stephen L. Cusick)The Slotting Function: How Movies Influence Political Decisions
John Denvir, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco
School of Law
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
Borders and Boundaries: An Interview with John Sayles
Film Directors: "Women Filmmakers"
course syllabusBibliography: Andrew Sarris, The American Cinema: Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 (1994)
Documentaries
Essays
The Death and Rebirth of Rhetoric
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)
Film 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
Manny Faber
Film History
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 PastThrow Away Your Books: Japanese Cinema
Kinoeye
Focus on Central and East European cinema
Film Magazines
Film Pedagogy
Film Education
Created for primary and secondary teachers teaching film across the curriculum; United KingdomEducation in the Film Corpus
EssayMetaMedia 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 Focus on Law Studies 6 (#2, 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 Scores
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 it at just 30 years and begins 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)
Links Directory
CineMedia
Self-advertised 25,000 links
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 Law Journal 1607 (1989); Robert Eli Rosen Ethical Soap: L. A. Law and the Privileging of Character, 43 University of Miami Law Review 1229 (1989); Charles B. Rosenberg, An L. A. Lawyer Replies, 98 Yale Law Journal 1625 (1989); Stephanie Goldberg, Bar Girls? Images of Women Lawyers on TV Slowly Improving, 76 ABA Journal 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 and Sharon Carton, The Law of the Federation: Images of Law, Lawyers and the Legal System in "Star Trek: The Next Generation", 24 University of Toledo Law Review 43 (Fall 1992); Ethan Katsh, Is Television Anti-Law? An Inquiry into the Relationship between Law and Media, 7 American Legal Studies Association Forum 26 (1983); David S. Machlowitz, Lawyers on TV, 74 American Bar Association Journal 52 (Nov. 1, 1988); Joan Gershen Markek, The Practice and Ally McBeal: A New Image for Women Lawyers on Television?, 22 Journal of American Culture 77 (Spring 1999); Paul J. Mastrangelo, Lawyers and the Law: A Television Filmography, 8 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 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)
And Still More
The Definitive Film Links Resource
ScreenSite for the Study of Film and Televisions
The Flying Inkpot's Incredible Movie Links Page
Alfred Hitchcock Scholars/'MacGuffin' Site
