Kristen Fuhs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristen Fuhs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristen |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuhs |
| SIGNATURE | FUHS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7681-6909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The dramatic idea of justice’: Wrongful conviction, documentary television, and The Court of Last Resort
This article explores the history of a little-known, true crime television program from the late 1950s entitled The Court of Last Resort. Initially, the program’s creators had hoped to produce the show as a series of investigative documentaries exploring individual cases of wrongful conviction, but practical industrial concessions forced them to hire actors, fictionalize the real stories and compromise with an esthetic that they called ‘fiction w…
How Documentary Remade Mike Tyson
This article will theorize the relationship between stardom and documentary by considering the ways in which documentary representations contribute to the discursive formation of a star. Specifically, the article will explore the central role that documentary film has played in remaking Mike Tyson's public image by analyzing the boxer's representation across three distinct films: Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (Barbara Kopple, 1993)…
The Legal Trial And/In Documentary Film
This article proposes to extend the work of law and film scholars, such as Carol Clover and Jennifer Mnookin, by looking at how juridically themed documentary films use the legal trial as both a platform and a structuring device to contest the evidentiary value of testimony, bear witness to the performance of law in our culture and engage in a social debate about flaws in contemporary jurisprudence. Because non-fiction film – with its presumed in…
How Documentary Remade Mike Tyson
This article will theorize the relationship between stardom and documentary by considering the ways in which documentary representations contribute to the discursive formation of a star. Specifically, the article will explore the central role that documentary film has played in remaking Mike Tyson's public image by analyzing the boxer's representation across three distinct films: Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (Barbara Kopple, 1993)…
The Legal Trial And/In Documentary Film
This article proposes to extend the work of law and film scholars, such as Carol Clover and Jennifer Mnookin, by looking at how juridically themed documentary films use the legal trial as both a platform and a structuring device to contest the evidentiary value of testimony, bear witness to the performance of law in our culture and engage in a social debate about flaws in contemporary jurisprudence. Because non-fiction film – with its presumed in…
How Documentary Remade Mike Tyson
This article will theorize the relationship between stardom and documentary by considering the ways in which documentary representations contribute to the discursive formation of a star. Specifically, the article will explore the central role that documentary film has played in remaking Mike Tyson's public image by analyzing the boxer's representation across three distinct films: Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson (Barbara Kopple, 1993)…
The dramatic idea of justice’: Wrongful conviction, documentary television, and The Court of Last Resort
This article explores the history of a little-known, true crime television program from the late 1950s entitled The Court of Last Resort. Initially, the program’s creators had hoped to produce the show as a series of investigative documentaries exploring individual cases of wrongful conviction, but practical industrial concessions forced them to hire actors, fictionalize the real stories and compromise with an esthetic that they called ‘fiction w…
Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Documentary film (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law in Society and Culture (2 works)