Framing Female Lawyers : : Women on Trial in Film / / Cynthia Lucia.
As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful caree...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 The Law Is the Law
- APTER 2 Father Knows Best
- CHAPTER 3 Female Lawyers and the Maternal
- CHAPTER 4 A Question of Genre
- CHAPTER 5 Female Power and Masculine Crisis
- CHAPTER 6 Genre, Gender, and Law
- CHAPTER 7 Feminist Address and Spectatorship in The Accused, Love Crimes, and Female Perversions
- CONCLUSION. Female Lawyers in the Twenty-First Century
- NOTES
- FILMOGRAPHY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX