Abstract
The debate on law and cinema has primarily focused on the depiction of law and the legal process in popular culture. The scholarship in this area has generally focused on a limited question: the impact of popular culture on the legal imagination, tied to a narrow domain of film studies that emphasizes textual and narrative analysis. Admittedly the question of how popular cinema shapes popular legal consciousness is an important one, but this essay argues that it is certainly neither the only question, nor even the most important one in the relationship between law and cinema.
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Liang, L. (2007). Cinema, Citizenship, and the Illegal City. In: Creekmur, C.K., Sidel, M. (eds) Cinema, Law, and the State in Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604919_2
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