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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465527703321

Titolo

Imagining legality [[electronic resource] ] : where law meets popular culture / / edited by Austin Sarat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8173-8571-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SaratAustin

Disciplina

791.43/65540973

Soggetti

Law in motion pictures

Law on television

Popular culture - United States

Law - Social aspects - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Imagining Legality argues that images of law suggested by television and film are as numerous as they are various, and that they give rise to a potent and pervasive imaginative life of the law. The media's projections of the legal