the experience of justice on film--multiple responses

From: filmgene <[email protected]>

All of the films of the Frenchman Andr=E8 Cayatte concern matters of justic=
e.
As a former lawyer, films like An Eye For an Eye and Tomorrow is My Turn
are quite relevant. See his entire filmography at imdb.

Gene Stavis

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From: Victoria Pasley: [email protected]


Very good recent Algerian Film The Repentant by Merzak Allouache
From Morocco God's Horses by Nabil Ayouch
Palestinian film Paradise Now by Hany Abou-Assad
The Iranian film A Separation by Asghar Farhadi
While Bamako by puts the World Bank on trial literally in Mali directed by
Abderrahmane Sissako
Hyenas from Senegal if regarding revenge as justice? Djibril Diop Mamb=E9ty
The 1978 Australian movie The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith comes to mind,
although I haven't seen it
Darrat/Dry Season from Chad Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
And from the US always think of 1972 film Sounder?

Victoria


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Philadelphia (1993)


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From: *Erica Sheen* <[email protected]>

You'd absolutely have to do at least one (earlier) SpenserTracy film,
particularly if you were going to do Judgement at Nuremberg (1961):  Adam's
Rib (1949); The People against O'Hara (1951); Inherit the Wind (1960).  And
you could pair one of these court-based dramas with a film in which justice
has to be fought for, so to speak, within the forum of film itself, such as
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955).

Spenser Tracy's 'star' identification with the public operation of justice
across the 50s and into the 60s dovetails in so many interesting ways with
the (largely) American phenomenon of  publically celebrated judges, like
Wendell Holmes and Learned Hand -  particularly, perhaps, in the way this
sequence of films leads into the Nuremberg film, in which Tracy plays
a fictional judge (Dan Heywood) presiding over, and famously summing up,
proceedings which were factually presided over by the British judge
Geoffrey Lawrence.  Of course, if you decide to do Kramer's film, you
could pair it with the 2000 tv miniseries, Nuremberg, where the 'real-life'
leading American judge, the historically extremely impressive Francis
Biddle, is asked to concede the presiding role to Lawrence, and does so
somewhat ungraciously - a disparagement  I find as interesting in 2000 as
the 1961 fiction.

Wish I was doing that seminar.  I'd love to know what Richard Sherwin
thinks about all this!

Erica Sheen


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From: *jsloniowski* <[email protected]>


Hi,

I have just started to read E. Deirdre Pribram's "Emotions, Genre, Justice
in Film and Television: Detecting Feeling. From Routledge, 2013. It is
about crime and feelings/justice.  It has studies of several films and TV
programs.

Might work for you!

Jeannette


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 From: *Terri Ginsberg* <[email protected]>


A couple of these are courtroom/legal dramas, a couple of them are not:

Inherit the Wind
The Wrong Man
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land

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