Editing 12 Angry Men (1957 film) (section)

==Themes==
Professor of Law Emeritus at [[UCLA School of Law]] Michael Asimow referred to the film as a "tribute to a common man holding out against [[lynch mob]] mentality".<ref name="Asimow 2007">{{cite journal |last=Asimow |first=Michael |title=12 Angry Men: A Revisionist View |url=https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol82/iss2/12/ |journal=[[Chicago-Kent College of Law|Chicago-Kent College of Law Review]] |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=711–716 |date=April 2007 |access-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-date=September 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920081811/https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol82/iss2/12/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Gavin Smith of ''[[Film Comment]]'' called the film "a definitive rebuttal to the lynch mob hysteria of the [[McCarthy era]]".<ref>{{cite book |last=Rapf |first=Joanna E. |title=Sidney Lumet: Interviews |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |date=2005 |page=131 |isbn=978-1578067244}}</ref>

Business academic Phil Rosenzweig called the jury in ''12 Angry Men'' being made up entirely of white men "especially important", writing: "Many of the twelve would have looked around the room, and, seeing other white men, assumed that they had much in common and should be able to reach a verdict without difficulty. As they deliberate, however, fault lines begin to appear—by age, by education, by national origin, by socioeconomic level, by values, and by temperament."{{sfn|Rosenzweig|2021|pp=223–224}}