Author: Louis-Georges Schwartz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199718032
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Mechanical Witness is the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of film and video use as courtroom evidence. Schwartz moves from the earliest employment of film in the courts of the 1920s to the notious 1991 Rodney Kind video, revealing how the courts have developed a reliance on film and video technologies and contributed to the growing influence of visual media as a dominant mode of knowledge formation. At the same time, film and video in juridical contexts has developed a distinct theoretical legacy. The particular qualities of film as evidence both resonate with and contradict existing scholarship-focusing on economic, social, or aesthetic factors-which hitherto has defined film's status and cultural contribution. In the context of a trial, the possible meanings of a film change from its meanings when shown in a movie theater or broadcast on television, yet the public (and cinema scholars) tend to assume that the two are the same. Mechanical Witness demonstrates that we must understand evidentiary film and video's institutional specificity if we are to understand the full effects of motion picture technologies on our culture. This study sets the terms for a long overdue assessment of how the entertainment industry has shaped our film viewing practices, the place of moving picture evidence in the courtroom, and the social and cultural consequences of these intertwined histories.
Mechanical Witness
Author: Louis-Georges Schwartz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199718032
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Mechanical Witness is the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of film and video use as courtroom evidence. Schwartz moves from the earliest employment of film in the courts of the 1920s to the notious 1991 Rodney Kind video, revealing how the courts have developed a reliance on film and video technologies and contributed to the growing influence of visual media as a dominant mode of knowledge formation. At the same time, film and video in juridical contexts has developed a distinct theoretical legacy. The particular qualities of film as evidence both resonate with and contradict existing scholarship-focusing on economic, social, or aesthetic factors-which hitherto has defined film's status and cultural contribution. In the context of a trial, the possible meanings of a film change from its meanings when shown in a movie theater or broadcast on television, yet the public (and cinema scholars) tend to assume that the two are the same. Mechanical Witness demonstrates that we must understand evidentiary film and video's institutional specificity if we are to understand the full effects of motion picture technologies on our culture. This study sets the terms for a long overdue assessment of how the entertainment industry has shaped our film viewing practices, the place of moving picture evidence in the courtroom, and the social and cultural consequences of these intertwined histories.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199718032
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Mechanical Witness is the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of film and video use as courtroom evidence. Schwartz moves from the earliest employment of film in the courts of the 1920s to the notious 1991 Rodney Kind video, revealing how the courts have developed a reliance on film and video technologies and contributed to the growing influence of visual media as a dominant mode of knowledge formation. At the same time, film and video in juridical contexts has developed a distinct theoretical legacy. The particular qualities of film as evidence both resonate with and contradict existing scholarship-focusing on economic, social, or aesthetic factors-which hitherto has defined film's status and cultural contribution. In the context of a trial, the possible meanings of a film change from its meanings when shown in a movie theater or broadcast on television, yet the public (and cinema scholars) tend to assume that the two are the same. Mechanical Witness demonstrates that we must understand evidentiary film and video's institutional specificity if we are to understand the full effects of motion picture technologies on our culture. This study sets the terms for a long overdue assessment of how the entertainment industry has shaped our film viewing practices, the place of moving picture evidence in the courtroom, and the social and cultural consequences of these intertwined histories.
Railway Mechanical Engineer
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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The Mechanical News
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Mechanical Engineer
Author: William Henry Fowler
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Category : Electrical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Author: American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Vols. 2, 4-11, 62-68 include the Society's Membership list; v. 55-80 include the Journal of applied mechanics (also issued separately) as contributions from the Society's Applied Mechanics Division.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Vols. 2, 4-11, 62-68 include the Society's Membership list; v. 55-80 include the Journal of applied mechanics (also issued separately) as contributions from the Society's Applied Mechanics Division.
The Dental Surgeon
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Category : Dentistry
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Category : Dentistry
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Mechanical Jurisprudence ...
Author: Roscoe Pound
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Report from the Select Committee on Tramways
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Languages : en
Pages : 524
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