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The Scene of the Mass Crime - History, Film, and International Tribunals (Paperback, New)
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The Scene of the Mass Crime - History, Film, and International Tribunals (Paperback, New)
Series: Discourses of Law
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The Scene of the Mass Crime takes up the unwritten history of the
peculiar yet highly visible form of war crimes trials. These trials
are the first and continuing site of the interface of law, history
and film. From Nuremberg to the contemporary trials in Cambodia,
film, in particular, has been crucial both as evidence of atrocity
and as the means of publicizing the proceedings. But what does film
bring to justice? Can law successfully address war crimes,
atrocities, genocide? What do the trials actually show? What form
of justice is done, and how does it relate to ordinary courts and
proceedings? What lessons can be drawn from this history for the
very topical political issue of filming civil and criminal trials?
This book takes up the diversity and complexity of these
idiosyncratic and, in strict terms, generally extra-legal medial
situations. Drawing on a fascinating diversity of public trials and
filmic responses, from the Trial of the Gang of Four to the Gacaca
local courts of Rwanda to the filmic symbolism of 9-11, from Soviet
era show trials to Nazi People's Courts leading international
scholars address the theatrical, political, filmic and symbolic
importance of show trials in making history, legitimating regimes
and, most surprising of all, in attempting to heal trauma through
law and through film. These essays will be of considerable interest
to those working on international criminal law, transitional
justice, genocide studies, and the relationship between law and
film.
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