Research Catalog

Title

Law and popular culture / edited by Michael Freeman.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Freeman, Michael D. A.

Description

xv, 696 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

'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

Current legal issues ; 2004, v. 7

Uniform Title

• University press scholarship online.
• Current legal issues v. 7.

Subject

• Culture and law
• Law in literature
• Popular culture
• Popular Culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0199272239 (hard cover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004028387

OCLC

• 57168623
• SCSB-10297350

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library