Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The Law Is the Law: Adam's Rib and The Verdict
• Chapter 2. Father Knows Best: Female Lawyers as Daughters in Music Box and Class Action
• Chapter 3. Female Lawyers and the Maternal: The Client and Defenseless
• Chapter 4. A Question of Genre: Jagged Edge and Guilty as Sin
• Chapter 5. Female Power and Masculine Crisis: Genre Hybrids and Dual-Focus Narratives
• Chapter 6. Genre, Gender, and Law: The Female Lawyer Narrative and Its Influence
• Chapter 7. Feminist Address and Spectatorship in The Accused, Love Crimes, and Female Perversions
• Conclusion: Female Lawyers in the Twenty-First Century
• Notes
• Filmography
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

A probing look at film representations of women lawyers during the Reagan-Bush era.

About the Author

Cynthia Lucia is professor of Media Arts (Film and Television) at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. She also serves on the editorial board of Cineaste magazine.

Reviews

The book asks important questions about the seemingly taken for granted quality of feminist perspectives on gender and work, about the ways in which both the codes of law and those of genre "frame" the female lawyer, and about the persistence of anxious constructions of successful women. (Cineaste)