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2014 » Papers » Volume 2 » AMERICAN FILM NOIR, MYSTERY CLASSICS AND LEGAL CLASSROOM: AN e-LEARNING INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH 1. AMERICAN FILM NOIR, MYSTERY CLASSICS AND LEGAL CLASSROOM: AN E-LEARNING INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH Authors: Magiru Anca, Magiru Ionel Volume 2 | DOI: 10.12753/2066-026X-14-102 | Pages: 314-317 | Download PDF | Abstract
This paper shows how to explore, in the English class for law students, the film noir based on novels, some classic films which are seen as vehicles in order to go deeply into popular beliefs about law and society. The paper wants to be the support for a course to-be syllabus. It will be a systematic, comprehensive film-as-law approach which asks how film about law can constitute a legal culture beyond the film. The paper is an example of law and film studies, itself a sub-discipline of law and cultural studies. Beyond methodological innovation, cultural studies can promote change in legal studies by widening the moments of subjectivity that are even considered in the analysis of law and legality.
This research of classic American film noir and mystery classics, based on American cultural studies, political and social conflicts, is quite new in Romania. Therefore, the investigation will be a complex process in which seven classic American film noirs (1940s-1950s) and the novels which they are based on will interact dinamically with the social background in order to create the agenda of changes on the homefront, postwar years, international tensions, gender and family uncertainties in an American unsettled decade. As movies and literature scholarship is one of the most exciting of recent interdisciplnary ventures, it has an enormous potential in the law school classroom as a positive and popular measure. Some general features of the American film noir will provide the background to the topics and the legal system will be set within the framework with\ particular reference to the social conflicts.The way in which law and the protagonists are portrayed in film noir and literature is a fascinating subject for the professors of law and law students. I think that in Romanian law schools, films and classic literature with a legal theme should/could be used to identify various aspects of legal activity ranging from legal practice (i.e. intrinsic lawyer skills including legal argument, negotiation and advocacy) to various aspects of the legal process (e.g. the function of the judge and jury) as well as important elements of legal and ethical theory. I will conduct research on the Law Through Film and Literature with a viewpoint to writing a textbook and related teacher's manual that can be used by myself and other professors to teach this subject. | Keywords
Interdisciplinary approach, law school syllabus |
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