Framed

“Kamir’s analysis of woman in law and film demonstrates how fruitful an interdisciplinary approach to film criticism can be, and the consideration of women in law films . . . is timely and welcome. . . . Kamir has provided a convincing rationale for the furtherance of this area of study, as well as an overdue focus on the hidden victims of courtroom dramas.” - Lucy Bolton, Scope

“Kamir’s book Framed is a gem, albeit one that resists easy description. . . . It is a book that seeks to enable its readers to see with greater depth into the jurisprudential assumptions captured in law and film, and into the structure of those relations of force and enchantment in which we inevitably must participate. There is no other word for it. Magic.” - Rebecca Johnson, Michigan Law Review

“Framed is groundbreaking. It pushes law-and-film scholarship forward in significant ways. The question at its core is not how various groups are represented but rather the more difficult one of how we as legal or cinematic audiences are led to judge these groups. Orit Kamir doesn’t simply ‘do’ an analysis of a group of films. Rather, she uses a set of films as a vehicle to explore the mechanisms of judgment.” - Rebecca Johnson, author of Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law

“In this fascinating book, Orit Kamir displays an original method for reading law and film that illuminates both a remarkable set of films from around the world and many of our deepest assumptions about law. All this is done from a powerful feministic perspective. I know nothing like it.” - James Boyd White, author of The Edge of Meaning