Publications

Authors:

Velo Dalbrenta, Daniele

Title:

An Inevitable Verdict (or Perhaps Not). The Rhetoric of ‘Reasonable Doubt’ in Twelve Angry Men by Sidney Lumet

Year:

2026

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

TOPOI

ISSN of journal:

1572-8749

N° Volume:

Theorizing Rhetoric: Bridging Concepts Across Multiple Perspectives, Different Practices and Contexts

Page numbers:

1-10

Keyword:

Jury, Reasonable doubt, Conflict, Truth, Justice

Short description of contents:

Twelve jurors find themselves ‘trapped’ in the deliberation room, struggling to reach a unanimous verdict on a case that should have been ‘easy’, until the stubborn insistence of one of them begins to reveal its full complexity by means of the rhetoric of ‘reasonable doubt’. With Twelve Angry Men, Sidney Lumet stages a courtroom drama that has set a benchmark in the genre (if only for making the workings of a jury visible) and that might appear to lend itself to an easy reading. Unless, just as in the film, one attempts to dig deeper.

Web page:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-025-10360-8

Product ID:

150584

Handle IRIS:

11562/1187787

Last Modified:

April 2, 2026

Bibliographic citation:

Velo Dalbrenta, Daniele, An Inevitable Verdict (or Perhaps Not). The Rhetoric of ‘Reasonable Doubt’ in Twelve Angry Men by Sidney Lumet «TOPOI» , vol. Theorizing Rhetoric: Bridging Concepts Across Multiple Perspectives, Different Practices and Contexts , 2026 , pp. 1-10

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