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Law School Goes to the Movies
- 1. LAW SCHOOL GOES TO THE MOVIES! ALAN PANNELL UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW SCHOOL
- 2. Outline Why Law and Film Traditional Uses of Law and Film Traditional Librarian Roles New Uses of Law and Film New Roles for Librarians Resources
- 3. Why Law and Film? “No art passes our conscience the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” – Ingmar Bergman
- 4. Why Law and Film? “Popular culture is not only entertainment. It covers 98-99% of American society today in one way or another.” – James R. Elkins, “Reading/Teaching Lawyer Films”
- 5. Why Law and Film? “The reason for teaching lawyer films is simply this: we need vivid, compelling representations of lawyer in action.” – James R. Elkins, “Reading/Teaching Lawyer Films”
- 6. Why Law and Film? Storytelling Principles Examples of Legal Issues Student Engagement
- 7. Why Law and Film? “I believe seminars like Law and Literature and my own film seminar are actually a return to traditional pedagogy.” – Alan A. Stone, “Teaching Film at Harvard Law School”
- 8. Traditional Uses of Law & Film
- 12. CLE Programs
- 15. Copyright Issues
- 16. Copyright Issues The Copyright Act Classroom exemption: (a) performances must be shown “in the course of . . . teaching activities” which involve "systematic instruction [and] whatever their cultural value or intellectual appeal", do not involve performances "given for the recreation or entertainment of any part of the audience" (b) performances must involve "face-to-face teaching activities" meaning that either an instructor must be present in the room or "in the same building or general area" (c) performances must take place “in a classroom or similar place devoted to instruction” such as "a studio, a workshop, a gymnasium, a training field, a library, the stage of an auditorium itself, if it is actually used as a classroom for systematic instructional activities."
- 17. Acquisition/ILL
- 18. Acquisition/ILL
- 19. Collection Development “Your library’s films are some of the highest –quality work in your building, often unjustly ignored, maligned, and simply consigned to “popular material” even though there is so much thematic and artistic richness waiting to be mined in a discussion format.” – Alan Jacobson, “How to Offer More Than a Movie”
- 23. Collection Development Top Checkouts at Colorado Law
- 24. New Uses of Law and Film
- 25. Interdisciplinary Scholarship “Un-Dead Labor: China, Industrial Production, and the Zombie Apocalypse,” by Brynnar Swenson (Presented at Southwest Texas Popular Culture Conference 2013)
- 26. Orientation Errol Morris’ The Thin Blue Line
- 27. Orientation Tim Burton’s Big Fish
- 28. Law School Movie Series
- 30. Selection Committee TRANSCENDENCE: Big Fish JUSTICE: Capote, Compulsion, Philadelphia, Norma Rae, To Kill a Mockingbird COURAGE: 12 Angry Men, North Country, Erin Brokovich, A Few Good Men, The Verdict
- 31. Companion Materials Articles/Reviews Bibliography/Further Reading Discussion Questions Viewing Guide Marketing Materials
- 32. Faculty Support
- 37. Legal Research and Film
- 38. Legal Research and Film
- 39. Library and Film Scholarship
- 40. New Directions Clockwise from Top Left: The Walking Dead | The Descendants | Moonrise Kingdom | Win Win
- 41. Resources SWALL Bulletin Fall 2012: Guide to Law and Film Resources + Updates Law in the Reel World: http://lawinthereelworld.wordpress.com Books
- 42. Resources SWALL Bulletin Fall 2012: Guide to Law and Film Resources + Updates Law in the Reel World: http://lawinthereelworld.wordpress.com Websites 25 Greatest Legal Movies http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_25_greatest_legal_movies Law and Lawyers in Popular Culture http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/exhibits/lpop
- 43. “How to Offer More Than a Movie: Producing Film Discussions That are Serious Cultural Events,” Alan Jacobson, American Libraries, July/Aug. 2011, 42 “Law & Film: Teaching Film at Harvard Law School, ” Alan A. Stone, 28 Vt. L. Rev. 813 “Symposium: Law in Film/Film in Law: Reading Teaching Lawyer Films,” James R. Elkins, 24 Legal Stud. Forum 573 Resources SWALL Bulletin Fall 2012: Guide to Law and Film Resources + Updates Law in the Reel World: http://lawinthereelworld.wordpress.com Articles
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Notes de l'éditeur
- Visual learning style of today’s studentsEthics most common issueEspecially useful for trial advocacy
- Visual learning style of today’s studentsEthics most common issueEspecially useful for trial advocacy
- Law & Film Scholarship took off in the 90s.
- Mimi Wesson Law & Literature class - Law & Film grew out of law and literature- Guest Speaker: Jim Palmer
- In Debt We Trust – Amy Spitz Consumer Law Class
- Discussion GroupsChoose discussable movies (SEE: Jacobson, How to Offer More Than a Movie)Consider name recognitionMore successful if required or recommended by faculty
- Shown at Military Law Society event
- Fair Use = Classroom setting / Speakers / No marketing to public
- Focus on classic law movies and well-known contemporary legal filmsSEE film lists/ filmographies in books: Movie Therapy for Law School/ Reel Justice/Celluloid Courtroom
- As needed/requested by faculty OR New titles through collection dev process
- Accept everything!
- Positive Psychology at the Movies: (1) The American Film Institute’s 100 most inspiring movies.(2) Positive Psychology movies, grouped by desirable character-building traits.
- Questions: Choose “discussable” questions (Jacobson, How to Offer More than a Movie)