LAW395A

Intersocietal Jurisprudence Through Cinema

Draws Canadian and Indigenous legal orders into engagement, using film as a primary text. Examines Hollywood, documentary, and independent film genres, produced by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous filmmakers, focusing on intersocietal encounters. Considers theoretical, philosophical and practical scholarship about the cinematic realm to explore how narrative, oral and visual tools of storytelling structure understandings of law, justice, gender, truth, community and nation.