Shubha Ghosh, Love and Dead Hand Control At the Border @ShubhaGhosh @bfastallday
Love and Dead Hand Control at the Border Shubha Ghosh Lone Star (1995) is one of my favorite movies, and I was lucky to have the chance to talk about it briefly with...
Law and Film
ICYMI: Nielsen, Patel, and Rosner on “Ahead of the Lawmen”: Law and Morality in Disney Animated Films 1960-1998
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 on Colonialism and the Birth of the Zombie Movie @LiviaGershon @JSTOR_Daily
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...
Pop Culture Presidents @VanityFair
Jeffrey Engel on popular culture Presidents (from Vanity Fair, October 29, 2020).
The Origins of the Film “12 Angry Men” @ABAJournal @Lee_Rawles @IMD_Bschool @philrosenzweig
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,...
Amar Khoday on Legal Issues in The Mauritarian @amarkhoday @Jurisculture1
At Jurisculture, Amar Khoday on legal issues in the film The Mauritarian, here and here.
How To Get Away With Murder? @ProfBrianKalt @MSULaw @atlasobscura
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...
Treuthart on Marriage Story: A Tale of Divorce, Love…and the Law @GonzagaLaw
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...
Dramatization of “The Staircase” Will Star Colin Firth
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...
Newly Published: Terence McSweeney, The Contemporary Superhero Film: Projections of Power and Identity (2020) @FilmTVSolent
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.