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Full-Text Articles in Law
What Documentary Films Teach Us About The Criminal Justice System - Introduction, Taunya Lovell Banks
What Documentary Films Teach Us About The Criminal Justice System - Introduction, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
Film . . . has been used effectively to shape public perceptions about the criminal justice system. . . . [and] the documentary form has power to convict or release a defendant, as well as to disclose the positive and negative aspects of the criminal justice system. . . . Three articles on this subject appear in this issue of the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LAW JOURNAL OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER AND CLASS and add to this body of scholarship. . . .Our goal was to foster a series of dialogues among and between a number of individuals: filmmakers....
Troubled Waters: Mid-Twentieth Century American Society On "Trial" In The Films Of John Waters, Taunya Lovell Banks
Troubled Waters: Mid-Twentieth Century American Society On "Trial" In The Films Of John Waters, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
In this Article Professor Banks argues that what makes many of filmmaker John Waters early films so subversive is his use of the “white-trash” body—people marginalized by and excluded from conventional white America—as countercultural heroes. He uses the white trash body as a surrogate for talk about race and sexuality in the early 1960s. I argue that in many ways Waters’ critiques of mid-twentieth century American society reflect the societal changes that occurred in the last forty years of that century. These societal changes resulted from the civil rights, gay pride, student, anti-war and women’s movements, all of which used …
Here Comes The Judge! Gender Distortion On Tv Reality Court Shows, Taunya Lovell Banks
Here Comes The Judge! Gender Distortion On Tv Reality Court Shows, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
In the judicial world of television court shows women constitute a majority of the judges and where non-white women and men dominate. In real life most judges are white and male. This essay looks at the gender and racial composition and demeanor of these television reality judges. It asks whether women TV reality judges behave differently from their male counterparts and whether women’s increased visibility as judges on daytime reality court shows reinforces or diminishes traditional negative stereotypes about women, especially non-white women.
Teaching Laws With Flaws: Adopting A Pluralistic Approach To Torts, Taunya Lovell Banks
Teaching Laws With Flaws: Adopting A Pluralistic Approach To Torts, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
No abstract provided.
Torts - Conspiracy - Respondeat Superior - National Political Organization Held Liable For Tort Of Conspiracy Committed By Local Chapter, Taunya Lovell Banks
Torts - Conspiracy - Respondeat Superior - National Political Organization Held Liable For Tort Of Conspiracy Committed By Local Chapter, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
No abstract provided.
Multilayered Racism: Courts' Continued Resistance To Colorism Claims, Taunya Lovell Banks
Multilayered Racism: Courts' Continued Resistance To Colorism Claims, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
No abstract provided.
Equality And Sorority During The Decade After Brown, Taunya Lovell Banks
Equality And Sorority During The Decade After Brown, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
No abstract provided.
What Documentary Films Teach Us About The Criminal Justice System - Introduction, Taunya Lovell Banks
What Documentary Films Teach Us About The Criminal Justice System - Introduction, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
Film . . . has been used effectively to shape public perceptions about the criminal justice system. . . . [and] the documentary form has power to convict or release a defendant, as well as to disclose the positive and negative aspects of the criminal justice system. . . . Three articles on this subject appear in this issue of the UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LAW JOURNAL OF RACE, RELIGION, GENDER AND CLASS and add to this body of scholarship. . . .Our goal was to foster a series of dialogues among and between a number of individuals: filmmakers....
A Few Random Thoughts About Socio-Economic "Rights" In The United States In Light Of The 2008 Financial Meltdown, Taunya Lovell Banks
A Few Random Thoughts About Socio-Economic "Rights" In The United States In Light Of The 2008 Financial Meltdown, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
Socio-economic rights, first articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) sixty years ago, are regaining currency. Legal practitioners around the world, emboldened by emerging constitutional democracies in Eastern Europe and South Africa that constitutionalized socio-economic rights, are actively seeking to enforce these rights. The UDHR “reaffirim[ed] faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person,” and served as the basis for the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). Among those rights included in the Covenant are housing, food, and healthcare.
Outsider Citizens: Film Narratives About The Internment Of Japanese Americans, Taunya Lovell Banks
Outsider Citizens: Film Narratives About The Internment Of Japanese Americans, Taunya Lovell Banks
Taunya Lovell Banks
This article examines the conflicting film narratives about the internment from 1942 through 2007. It argues that while later film narratives, especially documentaries, counter early government film narratives justifying the internment, these counter-narratives have their own damaging hegemony. Whereas earlier commercial films tell the internment story through the eyes of sympathetic whites, using a conventional civil rights template … Japanese and other Asian American documentary filmmakers construct their Japanese characters as model minorities — hyper-citizens, super patriots. Further, the internment experience remains largely a male story. With the exception of Emiko Omori’s documentary film memoir, Rabbit in the Moon (2004), …