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- Title: Michael Clayton, Hollywood's Contemporary Hero-Lawyer: Beyond Outsider Within and Insider Without. (Legal Outsiders in American Film)
- Author : Suffolk University Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 315 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION When we think of "outsiders" in the context of law, those who often come to mind are members of disenfranchised minorities, such as the mentally challenged. But in many of Hollywood's lawyer films, the paradigmatic and perhaps most interesting outsider is the lawyer himself. The lawyer protagonist is often an "outsider within" his community, the legal culture, or his law firm. (When the cinematic lawyer is a woman, she is often "twice removed" from the on-screen world's "inside" sphere.) In many law films, the cinematic lawyer often transcends the boundaries of the film's community, of its legal world, of the cinematic law firm, or even of the law itself, becoming "the insider without." The lawyer, then, evolves from an outsider within to an insider without, at times coming full circle and returning to the outsider within status. A cinematic lawyer who is a true insider and operates strictly within the law, society, his law firm, and the legal world is often portrayed as unreliable and corrupt. Justice, Hollywood tells us, is not often upheld by "insiders within."