La and Popular Culture Current Legal Issues 2004 Volume 7 [Hardcover]

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 theCurrent LegalIssues 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.

PART I: INTRODUCTORY THEMES
1. Law And Film Studies - Autonomy and Theory,Peter ROBSON
2. Where The Wild Things Really Are: Children's Literature And The Law,Desmond MANDERSON
3. The Absence of Contradiction And The Contradiction of Absence: Law, Ethics And The Holocaust,David SEYMOUR
PART II: REEL JUSTICE
4. Law's Enchantment: The Cinematic Jurisprudence of Krzystztof Kieslowski,Richard SHERWIN
5. When Celluloid Lawyers Started To Speak: Exploring Juriscinema's First Golden Age,Francis NEVINS
6. Emergency! Send A TV Show To Rescue Paramedic Services!,Paul BERGMAN
7. Procedural Unfairness In Real and Film Trials. Why Do Audiences Understand Stories Placed In Foreign Legal Systems?,Stefan MACHURA
8. Military Justice In American Film And Television Drama: Starting Points For Ideological Criticism,Matthias KUZINA
9. Courtroom Sketching: Reflections On History, Law And The Image,Lynda NEAD
10. What Movies Can Teach Law Students,John DENVIR
PART III: THE NOVEL
11. Popular Fiction And Domestic law: East Lynne, Justice, And The Order Of The Undecidable ,Marlene TROMP
12. Law's Agent: Cultivated Citizen Or Popular Savage? The ClÓ