Law and popular culture : international perspectives /
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,...
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Table of 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.
