Overview

Show Trials: History, War Crimes and Film takes up the unwritten history of this peculiar yet highly visible form of trial. War crimes 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, how is it related to ordinary courts? And what lessons are there 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 situations. Paying particular attention to the role of film in constituting these tribunals both internally and externally, here, 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. Their analyses will be of considerable interests to those with interests in international criminal law, transitional justice, genocide studies, and the relationship between law and film.

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Author:   Christian Delage (Cardoza School of Law, Yeshiva University, USA) ,  Peter Goodrich (Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780415688949

ISBN 10:   0415688949
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   12 November 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"1. History, Trauma, War Crimes: Pieter Lagrou: Getting the Past Right—or the Future?; William A. Schabas: Building the Official Narrative; Henry Rousso: Competitive Narratives: An Incident at the Papon Trial; Hélène Dumas: Gacaca courts in Rwanda: A Local Justice for a Local Genocide history?; 2. Show Trials: Nicolas Werth: The Raion Trials in the USSR (1937-1938); Anne Kerlan: The Trial of the ‘Gang of the Four’; Johann Chapoutot: The Nazi People’s Court (1944) or the Failure of ""Total Justice""; Stuart Liebman: The Majdanek Trial. The Holocaust on Trial on Film: Kazimierz Czyński’s Swastyka i Szubienica (1945); 3. Khmer Rouge on Trial: Françoise Sironi: The Psychological Evaluation of Duch, A Criminal Against Humanity in Cambodia; François Roux: Pleading guilty: the case of Duch in the Khmer Rouge trial. Defending Duch; Brice Poirier: The Place and Participation of the Victims in Duch’s Trial; 4. September 11, 1973/2001: Hollywood, Figures and Film;Vincent Dozol: Hollywood: Previsualization and post 9-11 style?; Constance Ortuzar: The 9-11: The Chilean Coup and its Visual Memory; Christian Delage:Visualizing 9-11; Portfolio: Peter Goodrich and Linda Mills, Edward Hillel, Richard Sherwin"

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Peter Goodrich and Christian Delage are at Cardozo Law School, in New York.

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