How Long to Read Framing Female Lawyers

How Long Does it Take to Read Framing Female Lawyers?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 53 minutes to read Framing Female Lawyers by Cynthia A. Barto Lucia

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful career woman. Yet a close viewing of these films reveals contradictions and anxieties that belie the films' apparent acceptance of women's professional roles. In film after film, the woman lawyer herself effectively ends up "on trial" for violating norms of femininity and patriarchal authority. In this book, Cynthia Lucia offers a sustained analysis of women lawyer films as a genre and as a site where other genres including film noir, maternal melodrama, thrillers, action romance, and romantic comedy intersect. She traces Hollywood representations of female lawyers through close readings of films from the 1949 Adam's Rib through films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Jagged Edge, The Accused, and The Client, among others. She also examines several key male lawyer films and two independent films, Lizzie Borden's Love Crimes and Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lucia convincingly demonstrates that making movies about women lawyers and the law provides unusually fertile ground for exploring patriarchy in crisis. This, she argues, is the cultural stimulus that prompts filmmakers to create stories about powerful women that simultaneously question and undermine women's right to wield authority.

How long is Framing Female Lawyers?

Framing Female Lawyers by Cynthia A. Barto Lucia is 405 pages long, and a total of 103,275 words.

This makes it 137% the length of the average book. It also has 126% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Framing Female Lawyers Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 24 minutes to read Framing Female Lawyers aloud.

What Reading Level is Framing Female Lawyers?

Framing Female Lawyers is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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