The Trials

✍ Scribed by Devyn Forrest

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 95 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B086KM6T3J

✦ Synopsis

The play's the thing : an unscientific reflection on courts under the rubric of theater / Milner S. Ball -- The lawfulness of the American trial / Robert P. Burns -- An analysis of closing arguments to a jury / Anthony G. Amsterdam and Randy Hertz -- Law frames : historical truth and narrative necessity in a criminal case / Richard K. Sherwin -- Speaking of death : narratives of violence in capital trials / Austin Sarat -- Just the facts, ma'am : sexualized violence, evidentiary habits, and the revision of truth / Kim Lane Scheppele -- Theaters of proof : visual evidence and the law in Call Northside 777 / Jennifer Mnookin and Nancy West -- Film as witness : screening Nazi concentration camps before the Nuremberg Tribunal / Lawrence Douglas -- A reporter at large : doubt / William Finnegan -- Story and transcription in the trial of John Brown / Robert A. Ferguson -- Rats, pigs, and statues on trial : the creation of cultural narratives in the prosecution of animals and inanimate objects / Paul Shiff Berman -- Constructing a common language : the function of Nuremberg in the problematization of postapartheid justice / Stephane Leman-Langlois -- The trial : a parody of the law amid the mockery of men in post-colonia Papua New Guinea / David Lipset -- Forms of judicial blindness, or the evidence of what cannot be seen : traumatic narratives and legal repetitions in the O.J. Simpson case and in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata / Shoshana Felman.