03304nam 2200697 a 450 991045553980332120200520144314.00-585-27306-50-8173-8194-5(CKB)1000000000762174(EBL)438180(OCoLC)609839919(SSID)ssj0000364528(PQKBManifestationID)12110748(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000364528(PQKBWorkID)10395936(PQKB)10540211(MiAaPQ)EBC438180(OCoLC)45728040(MdBmJHUP)muse8937(Au-PeEL)EBL438180(CaPaEBR)ebr10237178(EXLCZ)99100000000076217420081215d1993 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPopular trials[electronic resource] rhetoric, mass media, and the law /edited by Robert Hariman1st paperbound ed.Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press19931 online resource (269 p.)Studies Rhetoric & CommunicatiIncludes index.0-8173-0698-6 0-8173-0474-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Performing the Laws: Popular Trials and Social Knowledge; 2. Constitutional Argument in a National Theater: The Impeachment Trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell; 3. Two Stories of the Scopes Trial: Legal and Journalistic Articulations of the Legitimacy of Science and Religion; 4. Constraints on Persuasion in the Chicago Seven Trial; 5. Power, Knowledge, and Insanity: The Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr.; 6. The Claus von Bulow Retrial: Lights, Camera, Genre?; 7. The Saga of Roger Hedgecock: A Case Study in Trial by Local Media8. Crime as Rhetoric: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine9. Mediating the Laws: Popular Trials and the Mass Media; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; IndexContemporary scholarship illustrates the law's increasingly powerful role in American life; legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication. This book addresses these interests through critical study of eight popular trials: the 17th-century trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, and the 20th-century trials of Scopes, the Rosenbergs, the Chicago Seven, the Catonsville Nine, John Hinckley, Claus von Bulow, and San Diego Mayor Larry Hedgecock. Such trials spark major public debates, become symbols of public life, and legitimize particular beliefs and instiStudies Rhetoric & CommunicatiTrialsUnited StatesMass mediaLaw and legislationUnited StatesPersuasion (Psychology)Electronic books.TrialsMass mediaLaw and legislationPersuasion (Psychology)345.73/7345.73/7 347.3075345.737347.3075347.3075Hariman Robert878860MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455539803321Popular trials2447830UNINA