Law and film : critical reflections on a field in motion / edited by Vittoria Becci, Alexia Katsiginis, and Edward van Daalen.

Eating Popcorn Like a Lawyer : On Fictions, the Senses, and Belonging / Alexia Katsiginis, Vittoria Becci, Edward van Daalen -- Writing about Evil / Alberto Rinaldi -- Reading a Law Film in Cinematic Context as a Commentary on the Decline of Liberal Democracy and the Rule of Law : Emin Alper's Burning Days (2022) read against John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) / Orit Kamir -- Violence as Law : Reading Dirty Harry, Unforgiven & Gran Torino as Comments on Vigilantism / Günter Frankenberg -- The Impossible Truth in Law and Films : The Female Gaze of Saint Omer and Anatomy of a Fall / Séverine Dusollier -- Teaching Law and Feminism through Cinema : A Proposal / Helena Alviar García -- Holy Motors : Law and Technology / Nathan Moore -- Kafka n the Balkans : "Before the Law," Nihilism and Crisis in Cristi Puiu's Aurora / Camil Ungureanu -- Revitalizing the Law : An Existentialist Take on Law and Film / Louis Hill -- Lost Horizons, or how to Lose more Slowly? / Geoffrey Samuel -- The Legal Spectacle / Elie Aslanof.

"This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of both fields. Challenged to go beyond an instrumental analysis of a law 'and' film, the contributors to this book instead consider instead the need to turn to film, and what this means for how we come to understand law and its absences. As such, 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 evil, and from masculine vigilantism to radical feminism. Taken together, they constitute an inspiring body of work that embodies an urgency for diverse and subversive ways to challenge law's formalism and authority; and to think about and respond variously to law's impotence, its disappointment, or its boredom. This book will appeal to legal scholars and students in law and the humanities, and especially those with interests in aesthetics, law and literature, law and culture, and law and society, and critical legal theory"-- Provided by publisher.