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Law and Justice on the Small Screen

Editat de Peter Robson, Jessica Silbey
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2012
'Law and Justice on the Small Screen' is a wide-ranging collection of essays about law in and on television. In light of the book's innovative taxonomy of the field and its international reach, it will make a novel contribution to the scholarly literature about law and popular culture. Television shows from France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the United States are discussed. The essays are organised into three sections: (1) methodological questions regarding the analysis of law and popular culture on television; (2) a focus on genre studies within television programming (including a subsection on reality television), and (3) content analysis of individual television shows with attention to big-picture jurisprudential questions of law's efficacy and the promise of justice. The book's content is organised to make it appropriate for undergraduate and graduate classes in the following areas: media studies, law and culture, socio-legal studies, comparative law, jurisprudence, the law of lawyering, alternative dispute resolution and criminal law. Individual chapters have been contributed by, among others: Taunya Banks, Paul Bergman, Lief Carter, Christine Corcos, Rebecca Johnson, Stefan Machura, Nancy Marder, Michael McCann, Kimberlianne Podlas and Susan Ross, with an Introduction by Peter Robson and Jessica Silbey.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781849462693
ISBN-10: 1849462690
Pagini: 488
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Hart Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

This book contains a wide-ranging collection of essays about law in and on television.The essays analyse television shows from France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the United States and make a novel contribution to the scholarly literature about law and popular cultureThe book's content has been organised to make it appropriate for students of media studies, law and culture, socio-legal studies, comparative law, jurisprudence, the law of lawyering, alternative dispute resolution and criminal law.The contributors to the book are all experts in the field.

Notă biografică

Peter Robson is a Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde.Jessica Silbey is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Cuprins

IntroductionPeter Robson and Jessica SilbeyPart I: Method/Context 1. Measuring Humanity: Rights in the 24th Century Lief H Carter and Michael McCann2. Television, Pleasure and the Empire of Force: Interrogating Law and Affect in DeadwoodRebecca Johnson3. Making 'Bad Apples' on The Bridge: A Production Study of the Making of a Police Drama Anita Lam4. Testing Television: Studying and Understanding the Impact of Television's Depictions of Law and JusticeKimberlianne Podlas5. Let's See How Far We've Come: The Role of Empirical Methodology in Exploring Television AudiencesCassandra SharpPart II: Genre Studies A. The Evolved Law TV Genres6. Dark Justice: Women Legal Actors on Basic CableTaunya Lovell Banks7. A Third Rapist? Television Portrayals of Rape Evidence Rules Paul Bergman8. Prosecutors and Psychics on the Air: Does a 'Psychic Detective Effect' Exist? Christine A Corcos9. Lawyers in Terrorism Thrillers Tung YinB. Reality Law TV 10. Til Debt Do Us Part: Reality TV and the Financial Literacy Regulatory Project Freya Kodar11. Judging Reality Television Judges Nancy S Marder12. Television Judges in Germany Stefan Machura13. Judge Judy: Constructions of 'Justice with an Attitude'Marilyn Terzic14. Reality TV and the Entrapment of Predators Mark TunickPart III: Specific Shows 15. Bordering on Identity: How English Canadian Television Differentiates American and Canadian Styles of Justice Ummni Khan16. Television Divorce in Post-Franco Spain: Anillos de oro (Wedding Rings) Anja Louis17. 'McNutty' on the Small Screen: Improvised Legality and the Irish-American Cop in HBO's The Wire Sara Ramshaw18. Torture and Contempt of the Law in '24': Selling America New 'Patriotic' Values Ryan J Thomas and Susan Dente Ross19. Decoding the Dark Passenger: The Serial Killer as a Force for Justice. Adapting Jeff Lindsay's Dexter for the Small Screen Angus Nurse20. Canada: ADR and The Associates Jennifer L Schulz21. Stranger Danger?: Sadistic Serial Killers on the Small Screen Annette Houlihan

Recenzii

...an innovative collection of essays on the influential interchange between the law and television.Although generally accessible as a whole, the collection offers differing levels of legal discussion and analysis that make the content appealing to a broad audience.Appealing to legal and sociological academics and students alike, the book has a wide appeal for those interested in how popular culture interchanges with legal constructs and the conceptions of justice.
By raising questions which enact a thorough reflection on the fundamental issues in the shaping of popular legal culture, this volume allows its readers to approach the wide range of televised legal programmes with greater awareness, pointing out the important role that television continues to play in everyone's lives.
The authors impressed me in providing a more nuanced understanding of TV representations of a number of contemporary social problems, such as violence against women, racism and homophobia, in Australia and beyondThis is an important book for legal academics, students and practitioners who wish to explore the diverse impacts and 'meanings' of TV portrayals of legal matters in our society. More than that, the volume provides excellent teaching and learning material, raising many jurisprudential issues . One could easily use the volume as the primary materials for courses in law and popular culture, as well as a seminar course in jurisprudence.
One virtue of edited volumes with multiple authors is the variety of perspectives and topics represented, and on this count, Law and Justice succeeds; it casts a very wide net. The volume may be of particular interest to scholars and students unfamiliar with, for example, approaches such as actor-network theory, which helpfully unpacked the blackbox of how television shows are produced. The chapters were educational and stimulating, and the anecdotal and interpretive evidence intriguing.
The chapters do provide an illuminating read through law and justice as represented on North American television. In limiting the chapters to law in literature - to predominately shows, especially the crime/lawyer drama, where the 'law' is immediately on the surface and to an analytical framework that focuses on this surface - there is a formal unity to the volume. This unity, the establishing of a mainstream core, is perhaps the true strength of the book.

Descriere

This is a wide-ranging collection of essays about law in and on television. In light of the book's innovative taxonomy of the field and its international reach, it will make a novel contribution to the scholarly literature about law and popular culture.