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Law and Popular Culture contains a collection of essays which explore the ways in which law interacts with and is represented in popular culture. In common with earlier volumes in the Current Legal Issues series, it seeks both a theoretical and methodological focus. This volume covers a broad range of issues. It is divided into nine parts which cover introductory themes; law as represented in the cinema and television; law as represented in novels; law and music; popular representations of crime and punishment; law, sexuality and popular culture; human rights and popular culture; the cultural phenomena of the mall and the franchise; and lawyering in popular culture.

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Author:   Michael Freeman (Professor of English Law, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   1.193kg
ISBN:  

9780199272235

ISBN 10:   0199272239
Pages:   712
Publication Date:   07 April 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTORY THEMES 1: Peter ROBSON: Law And Film Studies - Autonomy and Theory 2: Desmond MANDERSON: Where The Wild Things Really Are: Children's Literature And The Law 3: David SEYMOUR: The Absence of Contradiction And The Contradiction of Absence: Law, Ethics And The Holocaust PART II: REEL JUSTICE 4: Richard SHERWIN: Law's Enchantment: The Cinematic Jurisprudence of Krzystztof Kieslowski 5: Francis M. NEVINS: When Celluloid Lawyers Started To Speak: Exploring Juriscinema's First Golden Age 6: Paul BERGMAN: Emergency! Send A TV Show To Rescue Paramedic Services! 7: Stefan MACHURA: Procedural Unfairness In Real and Film Trials. Why Do Audiences Understand Stories Placed In Foreign Legal Systems? 8: Matthias KUZINA: Military Justice In American Film And Television Drama: Starting Points For Ideological Criticism 9: Lynda NEAD: Courtroom Sketching: Reflections On History, Law And The Image 10: John DENVIR: What Movies Can Teach Law Students PART III: THE NOVEL 11: Marlene TROMP: Popular Fiction And Domestic law: East Lynne, Justice, And The Ordeal Of The Undecidable 12: Melanie WILLIAMS: Law's Agent: Cultivated Citizen Or Popular Savage? The Crash Of The Moral Mirror 13: Leslie J. MORAN: Law's Diabolical Romance: Reflections On A New Jurisprudence Of The Sublime 14: David Ray PAPKE: Re-Imagining The Practice Of Law: Popular Twentieth-Century Fiction By American Lawyer-Authors 15: Adam GEAREY: The Materiality Of Symbols: J G Ballard And Jurisprudence: Law, Image, Reproduction 16: Claire VALIER: L'Oeuil qui Pense. The Emotive As Grounds For The Pensive In Phenomenological Reflection PART IV: MUSIC 17: Milner S BALL: Doing Time And Doing It In Style 18: Thilo TETZLAFF: Why Law Needs Pop - Global Law And Global Music PART V: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 19: Nicole RAFTER: Badfellas: Movie Psychos, Popular Culture, And Law 20: Roberta M HARDING: Reel Violence: Popular Culture And Concerns About Capital Punishment In Contemporary American Society 21: Lawrence M FRIEDMAN: Public And Private Eyes 22: Michael ROBERTSON: Seeing Blind Spots: Corporate Misconduct In Film And Law 23: Stuart WEINSTEIN: Repressed Memory Revisited: Popular Culture's Impact On The Law - Psychotherapy Debate 24: Anne S Y CHEUNG: What Law Cannot Give: From The Queen To The Chief Executive PART VI: LAW, SEXUALITY AND THE POPULAR CULTURE 25: Jenni MILLBANK: It's About This: Lesbians, Prison, Desire 26: Didi HERMAN: Juliet And Juliet Would Be More My Cup Of Tea : Sexuality, Law And Popular Culture PART VII: HUMAN RIGHTS 27: Christian DELAGE: Image As To Evidence And Mediation: The Experience Of The Nuremberg Trials 28: Carolyn Patty BLUM: Film, Culture and Accountability For Human Rights Abuses 29: Wae Chee DIMOCK: Science Fiction As A World Tribunal PART VIII: SOME OTHER CULTURAL PHENOMENA 30: Malcolm VOYCE: Neoliberalism, Shopping Malls and The End of Property ? 31: Rex J AHDAR: Do You Want Fries With That? The Franchise As a Cultural And Legal Phenomenon PART 1X: LAW, LAWYERING AND THE POPULAR CULTURE 32: Carrie MENKEL-MEADOW: Legal Negotiation In Popular Culture: What Are We Bargaining For? 33: Michael ASIMOW: Popular Culture And The American Adversarial Ideology 34: Steve GREENFIELD and Guy OSBORN: The Double Meaning Of Law: Does It Matter If Film Lawyers Are Unethical? 35: Philip N MEYER: Adaptation: What Post-Conviction Relief Practitioners In Death Penalty Cases Might Learn From Popular Storytellers About Narrative Persuasion 36: David A BLACK: Narrative Determination And The Figure Of The Judge

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