The visial line on the prehistory of law and film

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The Visial Line: On the Prehistory of Law and Film
Peter Goodrich

To cite this Article Goodrich, Peter(2008) 'The Visial Line: On the Prehistory of Law and Film', Parallax, 14: 4, 55 — 76 To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/13534640802416850 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13534640802416850

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The Visial Line: On the Prehistory of Law and Film
Peter Goodrich

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A minor instance. A little eruption of images culled from a foundational common law text. Sir Edward Coke, early seventeenth century sage and father of a