Law and emotions in The Split.
The representation of female lawyers in film and television has long been indicative of wider issues of patriarchal crisis. Seminal works by Cynthia Lucia (Framing Female Lawyers, 2005) and Orit Kamir (Framed: Women in Law and Film, 2005) have alerted us to the ambivalent representations of female l...
| Published in: | Law & Humanities Vol. 17; no. 2; pp. 300 - 320 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2023
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