Abstract
Anatomy of a Murder, a beloved, highly influential, seemingly liberal 1959 classic law-film seems to appropriate some of the fading western genre's features and social functions, intertwining the professional-plot western formula with a hero-lawyer variation on the classic western hero character, America's 19th century archetypal True Man. In so doing, Anatomy revives the western genre's honor code, embracing it into the hero-lawyer law-film. Concurrently, it accommodates the development of cinematic imagery of the emerging, professional elite groups, offering the public the notion of the professional super-lawyer, integrating legal professionalism with natural justice. In the course of establishing its Herculean lawyer, the film constitutes its female protagonist as a potential threat, subjecting her to a cinematic judgment of her sexual character and reinforcing the honor-based notion of woman's sexual-guilt.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Studies in Law Politics and Society |
| Pages | 67-105 |
| Number of pages | 39 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2004 |
Publication series
| Name | Studies in Law Politics and Society |
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| Volume | 35 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1059-4337 |
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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