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Imagining legality : where law meets popular culture / edited by Austin Sarat.

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Imagining legality : where law meets popular culture / edited by Austin Sarat.
Publication
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

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Sarat, Austin
Description
viii, 234 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture" is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image--that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media.
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Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  • Law in motion pictures
  • Law on television
  • Popular culture > United States
  • Law > Social aspects > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
What popular culture does for, and to, law : an introduction / Austin Sarat -- Trust us justice : 24, popular culture, and the law / Desmond Manderson -- Law's visual afterlife : violence, popular culture, and translation theory / Naomi Mezey -- Law's screen life : criminal predators and what to do about them : popular imperatives from screen-based reality / Richard K. Sherwin -- Real justice : law and order on reality television / Laurie Ouellette -- The responsibilities of the cyranoid citizen / Anna McCarthy.
ISBN
  • 9780817356781 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0817356789 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780817385712 (electronic)
  • 0817385711 (electronic)
LCCN
  • ^^2011006004
  • 40019923962
OCLC
  • 706465664
  • SCSB-12137928
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