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"This book analyzes how films have accurately or inaccurately portrayed the powers, rights, and freedoms within the U.S. Constitution, and it also explores how filmmakers' lessons about the Constitution have changed over time. This book would make an excellent addition to a course or research on constitutional law or film analysis"--

Law in motion pictures. --- United States. --- United States --- In motion pictures.

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Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image-that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media. Imagining Legality argues that images of law suggested by television and film are as numerous as they are various, and that they give rise to a potent and pervasive imaginative life of the law. The media's projections of the legal

Law --- Popular culture --- Law on television. --- Law in motion pictures. --- Television --- Motion pictures --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Social aspects

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This book seeks to detect the ways of thinking about international law present in films and TV series, placing focus on the various conceptions of law that are conveyed by the analysed material. The objective is to show how and why cinematographic representations depart from interpretations of rules generally accepted by lawyers.

International law. --- Law on television. --- Law in motion pictures. --- United Nations. --- cinematic studies. --- criminal justice. --- critical approach. --- human rights. --- international law. --- international relations. --- law of armed conflict. --- peace process. --- theory of international law.