Research Catalog

Title

Law and popular culture : a course book / Michael Asimow & Shannon Mader.

Author

Asimow, Michael

Publication

New York : P. Lang, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mader, Shannon

Description

xxvi, 273 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This book explores the interface between law and popular culture, two subjects of enormous current importance and influence. Exploring how they affect each other, each chapter discusses a legally themed film or television show, such as Philadelphia or Dead Man Walking, and treats it as both a cultural and a legal text, illustrating how popular culture both constructs our perceptions of law, and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Written without theoretical jargon, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book is intended for use in undergraduate or graduate courses and can be taught by anyone who enjoys pop culture and is interested in law."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Politics, media & popular culture, 1094-6225 ; v. 8

Uniform Title

• Politics, media & popular culture v. 8.
• Politics, media & popular culture ; v. 8.

Subject

• Culture and law
• Lawyers in motion pictures
• Lawyers on television
• Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures
• Justice, Administration of, on television
• Popular culture > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-264) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to law and popular culture -- The adversary system and the courtroom genre -- Lawyers as heroes -- Lawyers as villains -- The life of lawyers -- Legal education -- Law on television -- The criminal justice system -- The criminal jury -- Constitutional rights in criminal cases -- The death penalty -- The civil justice system -- Civil rights -- Family law.

ISBN

0820458155 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003006821

OCLC

• 51900378
• SCSB-10350820

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library