Law and popular culture /

'Law and Popular Culture' contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and popular culture. Topics include: law in fiction, law and popular music crime and punishment in popular culture and the law on sexuality and media representations of lesbian...

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Other Authors: Freeman, Michael D. A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Current legal issues ; v. 7.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Law in popular culture / Michael Freeman
  • Law and film studies : autonomy and theory / Peter Robson
  • Where the wild things really are : children's literature and the law / Desmond Manderson
  • The absence of contradiction and the contradiction of absence : law, ethics and the Holocaust / David M. Seymour
  • Law's enchantment : the cinematic jurisprudence of Krzysztof Kieslowski / Richard K. Sherwin
  • When celluloid lawyers started to speak : exploring juriscinema's first golden age / Francis M. Nevins
  • Emergency! Send a TV show to rescue paramedic services! / Paul Bergman
  • Procedural unfairness in real and film trials : why do audiences understand stories placed in foreign legal systems? / Stefan Machura
  • Military justice in American film and television drama : starting points for ideological criticism / Matthias Kuzina
  • Courtroom sketching : reflections on history, law and the image / Lynda Nead
  • What movies can teach law students / John Denvir
  • Popular fiction and domestic law : East Lynne, justice, and the "ordeal of the undecidable" / Marlene Tromp
  • Law's agent : cultivated citizen or popular savage? The crash of the moral mirror / Melanie Williams
  • Law's diabolical romance : reflections on a new jurisprudence of the sublime / Leslie J. Moran
  • Re-imagining the practice of law : popular twentieth-century fiction by American lawyer/authors / David Ray Papke
  • The materiality of symbols : JG Ballard and jurisprudence : law, image, reproduction / Adam Gearey
  • L'oeuil qui pense : the emotive as grounds for the pensive in phenomenological reflection / Claire Valier
  • Doing time and doing it in style / Milner S. Ball
  • Why law needs pop : global law and global music? / Thilo Tetzlaff
  • Badfellas : movie psychos, popular culture, and law / Nicole Rafter
  • Reel violence : popular culture and concerns about capital punishment in contemporary American society / Roberta M. Harding
  • Public and private eyes / Lawrence M. Friedman
  • Seeing blind spots : corporate misconduct in film and law / Michael Robertson
  • Repressed memory revisited : popular culture's impact on the law-psychotherapy debate / Stuart Weinstein
  • What law cannot give : From the queen to the chief executive / Anne S.Y. Cheung
  • It's about this : lesbians, prison, desire / Jenni Millbank
  • Juliet and Juliet would be more my cup of tea : sexuality, law and popular culture / Didi Herman
  • Image as evidence and mediation : the experience of the Nuremberg Trials / Christian Delage
  • Film, culture and accountability for human rights abuses / Carolyn Patty Blum
  • Science fiction as a world tribunal / Wai Chee Dimock
  • Neoliberalism, shopping malls and the end of property? / Malcolm Voyce
  • Do you want fries with that? The franchise as a cultural and legal phenomenon / Rex J. Ahdar
  • Legal negotiation in popular culture : what are we bargaining for? / Carrie Menkel-Meadow
  • Popular culture and the American adversarial ideology / Michael Asimow
  • The double meaning of law : does it matter if film lawyers are unethical? / Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn
  • Adaptation : what post-conviction relief practitioners in death penalty cases might learn from popular storytellers about narrative persuasion / Philip N. Meyer
  • Narrative determination and the figure of the judge / David A. Black.