| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
Commentators have noted the extraordinary impact of popular culture on legal practice, courtroom proceedings, police departments, and government as a whole, and it is no exaggeration to say that most people derive their basic understanding of law from cultural products. Movies, television programs, fiction, children's literature, online games, and the mass media typically influence attitudes and impressions regarding law and legal institutions more than law and legal institutions themselves. ... |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Lawyers and mediators -- Ally McBeal and subjective narration / Michael Asimow -- Comedic critique : the pop cultural divorce lawyer / David Ray Papke -- Fairly Legal : a Canadian perspective on the creation of a primetime mediator / Jennifer L. Schulz -- Grisham vs. Solmssen / Richard H. Weisberg -- Part 2. Crime, criminals and criminal justice -- Gender, human rights and cybercrime : are virtual worlds really that different? / Kim Barker and Olga Jurasz -- Honor matters most : judging law in the "Spenser" novels of Robert B. Parker / Anthony Bradney -- Seeing the big picture : why law fails in The Wire / John Denvir -- Legal transplants and legal drama : a comparison between the US and Italy / Elena Falletti -- Justice with a vengeance : retributive desire in the popular imagination / Cassandra Sharp -- Part 3. Portraying the courtroom -- A mobile judge : an analysis of a Dutch television hit / Odile Heynders and Philip Paiement -- Managing the "critical independencies" of the media and judiciary in the United Kingdom / Leslie J. Moran -- Popular culture and the European Court of Justice : the anonymous engine of the European integration process / Stefano Montaldo -- The law through the eye of courtroom comedy : the light legal procedural in context / Peter Robson -- Part 4. Pop cultural jurisprudence -- Renegotiating the west in Joel and Ethan Coen's True Grit / Kathryn Brown -- Affirmative cinema : when film-makers defend minorities / Pedro R. Fortes -- "It's my culture, stupid!" -- a reflection on law, popular culture and interdisciplinarity / Jeanne Gaakeer -- Film and mass tort litigation in the United States : A Civil Action and Erin Brockovich / Byron G. Stier -- Engrenages : antilegalism and French realism / Barbara Villez -- Part 5. Teaching law and popular culture -- Popular culture in the classroom and beyond : using Harry Potter as a portkey for civics and community involvement / Kelly E. Collinsworth -- State-sanctioned violence, Beethoven and Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange / Terri Mester -- More media and more countries : new approaches to teaching law and popular culture / Donald Papy -- Teaching a writing intensive law and popular culture freshman seminar / Gary E. Peter. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Law -- Philosophy.
|
|
Law -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Subject |
Law. |
| Added Author |
Asimow, Michael.
|
|
Brown, Kathryn (Kathryn J.)
|
|
Papke, David Ray, 1947-
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Law and popular culture 9781443858106 (OCoLC)880913372 |
| ISBN |
9781443861588 (electronic book) |
|
1443861588 (electronic book) |
|
1306875811 (e-book) |
|
9781306875813 (e-book) |
|
1443858102 |
|
9781443858106 |
|
