Leslie Francis
Film Editor and Featured Contributor
Leslie Francis is a philosophy professor and law professor at the University of Utah. Her fields include applied ethics of all types, disability, philosophy of law, and law and health care. She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Ethics and co-author of Privacy: What Everyone Needs to Know and Sustaining Surveillance: the Ethics and Politics of Public Health Data Use (both with John G. Francis). Her overall approach to philosophy involves thinking about what matters in contexts of injustice; movies are a great laboratory for this. Movies have been part of her life since she met her husband John at Michigan; her daughter is now a wardrobe stylist and costume designer in Hollywood.
Articles
#FrancisOnFilm: Judas and the Black Messiah
08 March 2021
#FrancisOnFilm: The Mole Agent
05 February 2021
Covid and the Veil of Ignorance
12 June 2020
#FrancisOnFilm: Crip Camp
30 April 2020
#FrancisOnFilm: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
09 March 2020
#FrancisOnFilm: Dionysus for Docs
03 February 2020
#Francis-on-Film: Parasite
20 November 2019
#FrancisOnFilm: Once Upon a Time...
26 August 2019
#FrancisOnFilm: Last Black Man in SF
24 July 2019
#FrancisOnFilm: I Am Mother
06 June 2019
#FrancisOnFilm: Shazam!
02 May 2019
#FrancisOnFilm: Minding the Gap
22 February 2019
#FrancisOnFilm: Aquaman
05 February 2019
#FrancisOnFilm: Brexit
24 January 2019
#FrancisOnFilm: Mission Impossible
02 August 2018
#FrancisOnFilm: The Rachel Divide
26 June 2018
#FrancisOnFilm: The Shape of Water
05 March 2018
#FrancisOnFilm: Three Billboards
06 February 2018
#FrancisOnFilm: Thor Ragnarok
22 November 2017
#FrancisOnFilm: Battle of the Sexes
18 October 2017
#FrancisOnFilm: Dunkirk
09 August 2017
#FrancisOnFilm: Guardians of the Galaxy 2
13 June 2017
#FrancisOnFilm: Get Out
04 April 2017
#FrancisOnFilm: I Am Not Your Negro
28 February 2017