Exploring film's jurisprudence in Sean Baker's films

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dc.contributor.authorGoud, Brittany R.
dc.contributor.supervisorJohnson, Rebecca
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-30T17:12:36Z
dc.date.available2019-04-30T17:12:36Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-04-30
dc.degree.departmentFaculty of Lawen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Laws LL.Men_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I am working at the intersection of law and film. I approach this work from the perspective of a practicing lawyer, former social worker, and through my own lived experiences to tease out and examine interactions with structural oppression. I am particularly interested in questions of pathologizing poverty, race, sexuality, and gender. I use four of Sean Baker’s films Prince of Broadway (2008), Starlet (2012), Tangerine (2015), and The Florida Project (2017) to look at difficult social issues such as poverty, violence, neoliberal economic structuring, and patriarchy. Complicated pathologies emerge as viewers work through these experiences of structural oppression with each film’s protagonist. To me, exploring how law is experienced by these characters assists in moving away from pathologizing both ourselves and others. To that end, this thesis is very personal at times, as I work out my own history, feelings and beliefs. In doing so, an important theme emerges: the development of interpersonal relationships to open up spaces of hope within oppressive structures. Insofar as law is oppressive, individual relationships press back.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10799
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectFilmen_US
dc.subjectLawen_US
dc.subjectPostmodernismen_US
dc.subjectStructuralismen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectSexualityen_US
dc.subjectPatriarchyen_US
dc.subjectSelfen_US
dc.subjectSocial Realismen_US
dc.subjectIntersectionalityen_US
dc.subjectPovertyen_US
dc.subjectViolenceen_US
dc.subjectPathologiesen_US
dc.subjectNeoliberalismen_US
dc.subjectInterpersonalen_US
dc.titleExploring film's jurisprudence in Sean Baker's filmsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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