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Addiction has appeared on the movie screen since Edison's earliest films (Starks, 1982); however, the now familiar images of modem institutional treatment did not appear until the late 1980s. After a decade of American cultural backlash against addicts and drug treatment during the years of the Reagan administration, public opinion seemed to shift throughout the 1990s toward encouraging people with substance-abuse problems to get help (White, 1998). Since that time, Hollywood has released several works with narratives focused on institutional treatment of addiction | JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIETY VOLUME 28 NUMBER 1 MARCH 2001 ISSN 0263-323X pp. 117-32 Law in Film Globalizing the Hollywood Courtroom Drama Stefan Machura and Stefan Ulbrigh English-language version by Francis M. Nevins and Nils Behling The courtroom drama is a prominent film genre. Most of the movies in this category are Hollywood productions dealing with the legal system in the United States of America. What they have in common is that essential parts of their stories take place in court. These movies have a tremendous influence on the public s concept of justice even though very few of them accurately reflect legal reality. Anyone with legal training who watches films of this sort will notice in them all sorts of absurdities1 which are not thoroughly investigated in this paper. Our concern here is to inquire why even movies that take place in continental Europe follow patterns of the American system and also why certain elements from American movies are repeated over and over again. I. THE REMARKABLE INFLUENCE OF HOLLYWOOD COURTROOM FILMS Experience transmitted by media is sometimes a functional equivalent for experience gained in the real world. American movies have influenced the image of legal procedure a great deal - and not just in the United States of America. An English legal expert told us about seeing a young barrister try to proceed before an English court in a manner that is possible only in the United States. A Spanish anthropologist who had filmed legal procedures in California carried her camera into a Spanish courtroom and was shocked to discover that everything was done differently from how it was done in the United States. German defendants and lay assessors have indicated in interviews that they were surprised to learn that procedure in German courts was so different from what watching television had led them to expect. It has Law Faculty Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Gebaude GC 8 135 D-44780 Bochum Germany 1 F.M. Nevins Review of P. Bergman and M. .
