Law and Popular Culture: Current Legal Issues 2004Volume 7

by Michael Freeman (Editor)

Overview

This is a collection of essays which explores 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199272235
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/16/2005
Series:	Current Legal Issues , #7
Pages:	712
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College London.

Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTORY THEMES1. Law And Film Studies - Autonomy and Theory, Peter ROBSON2. Where The Wild Things Really Are: Children's Literature And The Law, Desmond MANDERSON3. The Absence of Contradiction And The Contradiction of Absence: Law, Ethics And The Holocaust, David SEYMOURPART II: REEL JUSTICE4. Law's Enchantment: The Cinematic Jurisprudence of Krzystztof Kieslowski, Richard SHERWIN5. When Celluloid Lawyers Started To Speak: Exploring Juriscinema's First Golden Age, Francis NEVINS6. "Emergency!" Send A TV Show To Rescue Paramedic Services!, Paul BERGMAN7. Procedural Unfairness In Real and Film Trials. Why Do Audiences Understand Stories Placed In Foreign Legal Systems?, Stefan MACHURA8. Military Justice In American Film And Television Drama: Starting Points For Ideological Criticism, Matthias KUZINA9. Courtroom Sketching: Reflections On History, Law And The Image, Lynda NEAD10. What Movies Can Teach Law Students, John DENVIRPART III: THE NOVEL11. Popular Fiction And Domestic law: East Lynne, Justice, And The "Order Of The Undecidable", Marlene TROMP12. Law's Agent: Cultivated Citizen Or Popular Savage? The Crash Of The Moral Mirror, Melanie WILLIAMS13. Law's Diabolical Romance: Reflections On A New Jurisprudence Of The Sublime, Leslie MORAN14. Re-Imaging The Practice Of Law: Popular Twentieth-Century Fiction By American Lawyer-Authors, David Ray PAPKE15. The Materiality Of Symbols: J G Ballard And Jurisprudence: Law, Image, Reproduction, Adam GEAREY16. L'Oeuil qui Pense. The Emotive As Grounds For The Pensive In Phenomenological Reflection, Claire VALIERPART IV: MUSIC17. Doing Time And Doing It In Style, Milner S BALL18. Why Law Needs Pop - Global Law And Global Music, Thilo TETZLAFFPART V: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT19. Badfellas: Movie Psychos, Popular Culture, And Law, Nicole RAFTER20. Reel Violence: Popular Culture And Concerns About Capital Punishment In Contemporary American Society, Roberta M HARDING21. Public And Private Eyes, Lawrence M FRIEDMAN22. Seeing Blind Spots: Corporate Misconduct In Film And Law, Michael ROBERTSON23. Repressed Memory Revisited: Popular Culture's Impact On The Law - Psychotherapy Debate, Stuart WEINSTEIN24. What Law Cannot Give: "From The Queen To The Chief Executive", Anne S Y CHEUNGPART VI: LAW, SEXUALITY AND THE POPULAR CULTURE25. It's About This: Lesbians, Prison, Desire, Jenni MILLBANK26. "Juliet And Juliet Would Be More My Cup Of Tea": Sexuality, Law And Popular Culture, Didi HERMANPART VII: HUMAN RIGHTS27. Image As To Evidence And Mediation: The Experience Of The Nuremberg Trials, Christian DELAGE28. Film, Culture and Accountability For Human Rights Abuses, Carolyn Patty BLUM29. Science Fiction As A World Tribunal, Wae Chee DIMOCKPART VIII: SOME OTHER CULTURAL PHENOMENA30. Neoliberalism, Shopping Malls and The End of "Property"?, Malcolm VOYCE31. "Do You Want Fries With That?" The Franchise As a Cultural And Legal Phenomenon, Rex J AHDARPART 1X: LAW, LAWYERING AND THE POPULAR CULTURE32. Legal Negotiation In Popular Culture: What Are We Bargaining For?, Carrie MENKEL-MEADOW33. Popular Culture And The American Adversarial Ideology, Michael ASIMOW34. The Double Meaning Of Law: Does It Matter If Film Lawyers Are Unethical?, Steve GREENFIELD and Guy OSBORN35. Adaptation: What Post-Conviction Relief Practitioners In Death Penalty Cases Might Learn From Popular Storytellers About Narrative Persuasion, Philip N MEYER36. Narrative Determination And The Figure Of The Judge, David A BLACK