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- Title
Why a Jury Trial is More Like a Movie Than a Novel.
- Authors
Meyer, Phil
- Abstract
This essay is concerned to note the way in which successful trial advocacy seems to stem from the ability to convert legal discourse into a story form. These stories need to be ones with which a jury is familiar. These increasingly come from visual media, particularly film. It looks in detail at one trial where this process of relating a defence to the jury employed the structure of a Mafia film. The essay concludes by examining the reasons why the nature of the novel differs significantly from that of the film and how in the novel-to-film adaptation process a certain simplification is bound to occur.
- Subjects
TRIALS (Law); JURY; TRIALS in motion pictures; FILM adaptations
- Publication
Journal of Law & Society, 2001, Vol 28, Issue 1
- ISSN
0263-323X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-6478.00183