Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Framing Law and Crime: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Commensurability
Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Cecil Greek
Part I: Cinematic Histories and Real/Reel Dystopias of Law and Crime
Chapter 1: Law and Cinema Movement
Stefan Machura, Bangor University, Criminology and Criminal Justice
Chapter 2: The Crisis of Law and the Imaginary of Disaster: Reading Post-Apocalyptic Films
Majid Yar, Independent Scholar, Sociology
Chapter 3: A Canadian Perspective on Documentary Film: Drug Addict
Susan Boyd, University of Victoria, Canada, Studies in Policies and Practice Program
Part II: Jurisprudence in International Films
Chapter 4: In the Land of Blood and Honey: What's Fair or Just in Love and War Crimes? Lessons for Transitional Justice.
Carrie Menkel-Meadow, University of California-Irvine, Law
Chapter 5: Multifocal Judgment, Intersecting Legal Proceedings and Conservativism: A Separation and Rashomon.
Orit Kamir, The Center for Human Dignity, Israel, Law
Chapter 6: Beyond the Courtroom-Vigilantism, Revenge, and Rape-Revenge Films in the Cinema of Justice.
Peter Robson, University of Strathclyde, Law
Part III: Law and Crime in American Film and Television
Chapter 7: Alfred Hitchcock-Visions of Guilt and Innocence
Mathieu Deflem, University of South Carolina, Sociology
Chapter 8: Heroes for Hard Times: The Wire's 'Good Police'
John Denvir, University of San Francisco School of Law, Law
Chapter 9: Documenting Crime: Genre, Verity, and Filmmaker as Avenger
Matthew Sorrento, Rutgers University, Film and Journalism
Chapter 10: Screening the Law: Ideology and Law in American Popular Culture
Naomi Mezey, Georgetown University, Law and Mark C. Niles, American University, Law
Part IV: Film, Crime, and the Social World
Chapter 11:Race and Serial Killing in the Media: The Case of Wayne Williams
Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A., Attorney at Law
Chapter 12. Globalization and the Rise of the Behemoth: A Study in Gothic Criminology
Cecil Greek, University of South Florida, Sociology
Chapter 13: A Depiction of Evil, Order and Chaos: The Symbiotic Relationship of Law and the Supernatural in Film and Television
Farah Britto, University of South Florida, Anthropology, and Cecil Greek, University of South Florida, Sociology
Chapter 14: From Reel to Real - Conducting Filmic Ethnography in Criminology
Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Aalborg University, Sociology and Anders Petersen, Aalborg University, Sociology.
Part V: Epistemology and Ethics in Films of Law and Crime
Chapter 15. Fact, Fantasy, Fallacy: Division Between Fanciful Musings and Factual Mutterings
Jon Frauley, University of Ottawa, Criminology
Chapter 16: Tobias Beecher: Law as a Refuge from Uncertainty?
Steve Greenfield, University of Westminster, Law
Chapter 17: Nationalities, Histories, Rhetorics: Real/Reel Representations of the Holocaust and Holocaust Trials and a Poethics of Film and Law
Caroline Joan (Kay) S. Picart, Tim Bower Rodriguez, P.A., Attorney at Law
