Law and justice as seen on TV /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- The return of the attorney-hero: politics and justice in the prime-time courtroom
- Aliens, nomads, mad dogs, and road warriors: tabloid TV and new face of criminal violence
- Signs of the times: OZ and the sudden visibility of prisons on television
- Cameras, Court TV, and the rise of the criminal trial as major media event
- The politics of representation: gender violence and criminal justice
- Television and family dysfunction: from the talk show to the courtroom
- Television and the demonization of youth
- Television, melodrama, and the rise of the victims' rights movement
- Conclusion: the criminalization of American life.