Introduction: the pleasures and possibilities of trial films / Austin Sarat, Jessica Silbey, Martha Merrill Umphrey -- Law and the order of popular culture / Carol J. Clover -- Knowing it when we see it: realism and melodrama in American film since The birth of a nation / Ticien Marie Sassoubre -- Reasonable doubts, unspoken fears: reassessing the trial film's "heroic age" / Barry Langford -- Disorder in court: representations of resistance to law in trial film dramas / Norman W. Spaulding -- "I am here. I was there.": haunted testimony in the memory of justice and the specialist / Katie Model -- The appearance of truth: juridical reception and photographic evidence in standard operating procedure / Jennifer Petersen.
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