70370 - Criminal Justice and Movies

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Docente: Alberto Camon
  • Credits: 2
  • SSD: IUS/16
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0659)

Course contents

Lessons will analyse some of the main movies about criminal procedure.

The course programme is:

22nd of february 2016: Taxi to the dark side (Alex Gibney, 2007).

9th of february 2016: Le Procès (Orson Welles, 1962).

7th og march 2016: L’uomo di vetro (Stefano Incerti, 2007).

14th of march 2016: Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer, 1960).

21st of march 2016: Un spécialiste, portrait d'un criminel moderne (Eyal Sivan, 1999).

4th of april 2016: The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956).

Each lesson will take place in via Belmeloro 14, room G, at 16.00

Readings/Bibliography

Notes from lessons

Teaching methods

During each lesson a movie about criminal trials will be shown. A pubblic discussion will take place afterwards.

Assessment methods

They will consist of an oral examination on the mentioned topics.

Office hours

See the website of Alberto Camon