ICYMI: L. B. Nielsen, Nehal Patel, and J. Rosner published ‘Ahead of the Lawmen’: Law and Morality in Disney Animated Films 1960-1998 at 13 Law, Culture and the Humanities 104 (2017). This article examines...
Livia Gershon discusses the origins of the zombie movie here for JSTOR Daily. She notes: George Romero created the modern zombie as metaphor for contagious disease and consumerism. But, as film scholar Jennifer Fay writes, the first feature-length zombie movie emerged...
Jeffrey Engel on popular culture Presidents (from Vanity Fair, October 29, 2020).
ABA web producer Lee Rawles discusses the real life inspiration for the iconic film 12 Angry Men with Phil Rosenzweig, author of Reginald Rose and the Journey of 12 Angry Men (Empire State Editions,...
At Jurisculture, Amar Khoday on legal issues in the film The Mauritarian, here and here.
Atlas Obscura discusses the fifty-mile-square area in Yellowstone National Park, which is essentially a legal free-for-all. Brian Kalt, a professor of law at Michigan State University, pointed out in a 2005 law review essay...
Mary Pat Treuthart, Gonzaga University School of Law, has published Marriage Story: A Tale of Divorce, Love…and the Law at 45 J. Legal Pro. 65 (2020). Here is the abstract. Noah Baumbach’s 2019 narrative...
From The Hollywood Reporter: HBO Max’s docudrama The Staircase, based on the true crime series of the same name, will star Colin Firth. The eight episode series has been planned since 2019 and Harrison Ford...
New from Columbia University Press: Terence McSweeney, The Contemporary Superhero Film: Projections of Power and Identity (Wallflower Press, 2020). Professor McSweeney teaches at Solent University.
A piece by my former student, Danielle Maddox Kinchen: Only the Best and the Brightest: No Room for the Average Female Lawyer in the 21st-Century Cinematic Legal Profession, 21 Tex. Rev. Ent. & Sports...
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