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Zusatztext The chapters do provide an illuminating read through law and justice as represented on North American television. In limiting the chapters to law in literature – to predominately shows, especially the crime/lawyer drama, where the ‘law’ is immediately on the surface and to an analytical framework that focuses on this surface – there is a formal unity to the volume. This unity, the establishing of a mainstream core, is perhaps the true strength of the book. Informationen zum Autor Peter Robson is Professor of Law at Strathclyde University, Scotland. Jessica Silbey is Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts. Klappentext This is a wide-ranging collection of essays about law in and on television. In light of the book's innovative taxonomy of the field and its international reach, it will make a novel contribution to the scholarly literature about law and popular culture. Zusammenfassung 'Law and Justice on the Small Screen' is a wide-ranging collection of essays about law in and on television. In light of the book's innovative taxonomy of the field and its international reach, it will make a novel contribution to the scholarly literature about law and popular culture. Television shows from France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and the United States are discussed. The essays are organised into three sections: (1) methodological questions regarding the analysis of law and popular culture on television; (2) a focus on genre studies within television programming (including a subsection on reality television), and (3) content analysis of individual television shows with attention to big-picture jurisprudential questions of law's efficacy and the promise of justice. The book's content is organised to make it appropriate for undergraduate and graduate classes in the following areas: media studies, law and culture, socio-legal studies, comparative law, jurisprudence, the law of lawyering, alternative dispute resolution and criminal law. Individual chapters have been contributed by, among others: Taunya Banks, Paul Bergman, Lief Carter, Christine Corcos, Rebecca Johnson, Stefan Machura, Nancy Marder, Michael McCann, Kimberlianne Podlas and Susan Ross, with an Introduction by Peter Robson and Jessica Silbey. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPeter Robson and Jessica SilbeyPart I: Method/Context 1. Measuring Humanity: Rights in the 24th Century Lief H Carter and Michael McCann2. Television, Pleasure and the Empire of Force: Interrogating Law and Affect in DeadwoodRebecca Johnson3. Making 'Bad Apples' on The Bridge: A Production Study of the Making of a Police Drama Anita Lam4. Testing Television: Studying and Understanding the Impact of Television's Depictions of Law and JusticeKimberlianne Podlas5. Let's See How Far We've Come: The Role of Empirical Methodology in Exploring Television AudiencesCassandra SharpPart II: Genre Studies A. The Evolved Law TV Genres6. Dark Justice: Women Legal Actors on Basic CableTaunya Lovell Banks7. A Third Rapist? Television Portrayals of Rape Evidence Rules Paul Bergman8. Prosecutors and Psychics on the Air: Does a 'Psychic Detective Effect' Exist? Christine A Corcos9. Lawyers in Terrorism Thrillers Tung YinB. Reality Law TV 10. Til Debt Do Us Part: Reality TV and the Financial Literacy Regulatory Project Freya Kodar11. Judging Reality Television Judges Nancy S Marder12. Television Judges in Germany Stefan Machura13. Judge Judy: Constructions of 'Justice with an Attitude'Marilyn Terzic14. Reality TV and the Entrapment of Predators Mark TunickPart III: Specific Shows 15. Bordering on Identity: How English Canadian Television Differentiates American and Canadian Styles of Justice Ummni Khan16. Television Divorce in Post-Franco Spain: Anillos de oro (Wedding Rings) Anja Louis17. 'McNutty' on the Small Screen: Improvised Legality and the Irish-American Cop in ...
