ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on trial movies the producer of images of scientists in their interactions with legal institutions, an idealized image of science in popular culture can have effects on both judges and juries who are called upon to evaluate scientific expertise in courtroom. It acknowledges the existing discourse concerning reputation of lawyers and scientists, and the thesis that representation of science and scientists in trial movies is consistent with idealized image of science that persists in law. It identifies the images of science in lawyer movies as a point of intersection between literature-and-science studies, which includes the analysis of images of science and scientists in science fiction films, and the law-and-literature movement, which includes the study of images of law and lawyers in cinema. It considers popular views of science and scientists in analysis of trial movies. That is, popular conceptions of lawyers and legal processes combine with presuppositions about science in public responses to cinematic representations of expertise.
