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Law and and justice are important themes in film, not only in courtroom dramas, but also in the western, the film noir, even the documentary. In the Godfather trilogy Francis Ford Coppola shows that the Mafia possesses its own strict codes, even though they are in conflict with those of the criminal justice system. In Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors the protagonist also "gets away with murder," but with a different dramatic intent by the director and a different effect on the audience. She
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Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.
- Author
- John Denvir
- Publisher
- Urbana: University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252022319
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Sports, Literary Fiction, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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