The Judge on the Screen

A Translation and Critical Edition

Vincenzo Tomeo, Peter Robson, Vincenzo Ferrari , Ferdinando Spina

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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
21 December 2024

Film & movie: styles & genres; Popular culture; Entertainment & media law

Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities

Vincenzo Tomeo’s pioneering research in the 1960s and 1970s drew attention to the importance of popular culture in our understanding of the operation of the justice system. He was the first to recognize that how laws are interpreted and put into effect depends heavily on how the public understand them. This understanding comes from the ideas and understanding which the public have about the justice system. These ideas, in an era of mass popular culture, come largely from film. In his groundbreaking research he examined how judges and the police were viewed in popular film. He also stressed the importance of popular culture as opposed to classical accounts of law and justice and showed how these meshed with law and justice on film. The Judge on the Screen preceded the attention paid to popular culture by over a decade and provided empirical data some thirty years before any such work was carried out by Anglo-American and other European scholars. This classic work now appears for the first time in an English translation with additional supporting materials.

By: Vincenzo Tomeo
Contributions by: Vincenzo Ferrari, Ferdinando Spina
Edited by: Peter Robson
Edited and translated by: Peter Robson
Imprint: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 513g
ISBN: 9781683934172
ISBN 10: 1683934172
Series: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 21 December 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Memories of Vincenzo Tomeo Vincenzo Ferrari Il Giudice Sullo Schermo: A Classic in the Study of Popular Legal Culture, Finally Reborn Ferdinando Spina Locating Vincenzo Tomeo’s “Il Giudice Sullo Schermo” in Law and Popular Culture Scholarship: A Personal Reflection Peter Robson The Judge on Screen by Vincenzo Tomeo Foreword Preface Chapter One: The Image of the Judge in Mass Culture Chapter Two: The Judge and the Trial in Four Italian Films Chapter Three: The Public Reaction to the Film: The Judge as Hero Chapter Four: The Public Reaction to the Film: The Problem of Justice Chapter Five: The Judge as Interpreter of Conflict Appendices Note on Methodology I. In the Name of the Law II. City on Trial III. The Magistrate IV. Confessions of a Police Chief Questionnaire for the Film: The Magistrate

Peter Robson was solicitor, judge in Her Majesty’s courts and tribunal service (1992 – 2022) and professor of social welfare law at the University of Strathclyde (1992 – 2019).

Reviews for The Judge on the Screen: A Translation and Critical Edition

The Judge on the Screen is a pioneering work by one of the leading post-war Italian sociologists of law, a model of theoretically inspired empirical research on law and popular culture.--David Nelken, King's College, London