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Additional authors

1. Freeman, Michael D. A.

Description

1. xv, 696 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

1. '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 lesbianism.

Series statement

1. Current legal issues ; 2004, v. 7

Uniform title

1. University press scholarship online.
2. Current legal issues v. 7.

Subject

1. Popular Culture
2. Popular culture
3. Law in literature
4. Culture and law

Contents

1. 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 --^
2. 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 --^
3. 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 --^
4. 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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

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1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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