Framing Female Lawyers Women on Trial in Film

Name: Framing Female Lawyers Women on Trial in Film
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ISBN: 9780292706507

ISBN-10: 0292706502

ISBN-13: 9780292706507

Edition: 2005

Authors: Cynthia Lucia

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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 career woman. Yet a close viewing of these films reveals contradictions and anxieties that belie the films' apparent acceptance of women' professional roles. In film after film, the woman lawyer herself effectively ends up "on trial" for violating norms of femininity and patriarchal authority. In this book, Cynthia Lucia offers a sustained analysis of women lawyer films as a genre and as a site where…

Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 5/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 283
Size: 6.20" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

CYNTHIA LUCIA is Assistant Professor of English at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She also serves on the editorial board of Cineaste magazine.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Law Is the Law: Adam's Rib and The Verdict



Father Knows Best: Female Lawyers as Daughters in Music Box and Class Action



Female Lawyers and the Maternal: The Client and Defenseless



A Question of Genre: Jagged Edge and Guilty as Sin



Female Power and Masculine Crisis: Investigation, Action, and Romance



Genre, Gender, and Law: The Female Lawyer Narrative and Its Influence



Feminist Address and Spectatorship in The Accused, Love Crimes, and Female Perversions


Conclusion: Female Lawyers in the Twenty-First Century


Notes


Filmography


Bibliography


Index