Trial Films on Trial

Austin Sarat is an associate dean of the faculty and the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. Sarat is the author or editor of more than ninety books, including Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture;Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America's Death Penalty; When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition; and Something to Believe In: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyering.   Jessica Silbey is a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School and co-director of the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity. She is the author of The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property and coeditor of Law and Justice on the Small Screen.   Martha Merrill Umphrey is the Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government in the Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought and the director of the Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College. She has coedited more than a dozen books, including Reimagining ""To Kill a Mockingbird"": Family, Community, and the Possibility of Equal Justice under Law.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Pleasures and Possibilities of Trial Films by Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey, Martha Merrill Umphrey
Chapter 1. Law and the Order of Popular Culture by Carol J. Clover
Chapter 2. Knowing It When We See It: Realism and Melodrama in American Film Since The Birth of a Nation by Ticien Marie Sassoubre
Chapter 3. Reasonable Doubts, Unspoken Fears: Reassessing the Trial Film's ""Heroic Age"" by Barry Langford
Chapter 4. Disorder in Court: Representations of Resistance to Law in Trial Film Dramas by Norman W. Spaulding
Chapter 5. ""I Am Here. I Was There."": Haunted Testimony in The Memory of Justice and The Specialist by Katie Model
Chapter 6. The Appearance of Truth: Juridical Reception and Photographic Evidence in Standard Operating Procedure by Jennifer Petersen
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