Law And Popular Culture

Author : Michael Asimow,Kathryn Brown,David Papke
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781443861588

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Law and Popular Culture by Michael Asimow,Kathryn Brown,David Papke Pdf

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, fiction, children’s literature, online games, and the mass media typically influence attitudes and impressions regarding law and legal institutions more than law and legal institutions themselves. Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives enhances the appreciation of the interaction between popular culture and law by underscoring this interaction’s multinational and international features. Two dozen authors from nine countries invite readers to consider the role of law-related popular culture in a broad range of nations, socio-political contexts, and educational environments. Even more importantly, selected contributors explore the global transmission and reception of law-related cultural products and, in particular, the influence of assorted works and media across national borders and cultural boundaries. The circulation and consumption of law-related popular culture are increasing as channels of mass media become more complex and as globalization runs its uncertain course. Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives adds to the critical understanding of the worldwide interaction of popular culture and law and encourages reflection on the wider implications of this mutual influence across both time and geography.

Author : Michael Asimow,Shannon Mader
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Culture and law
ISBN : 0820458155

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Law and Popular Culture by Michael Asimow,Shannon Mader Pdf

This book explores the interface between law and popular culture, two subjects of enormous current importance and influence. Exploring how they affect each other, each chapter discusses a legally themed film or television show, such as Philadelphia or Dead Man Walking, and treats it as both a cultural and a legal text, illustrating how popular culture both constructs our perceptions of law, and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Written without theoretical jargon, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book is intended for use in undergraduate or graduate courses and can be taught by anyone who enjoys pop culture and is interested in law.

Author : Wendy A Adams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317078289

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Popular Culture and Legal Pluralism by Wendy A Adams Pdf

Drawing upon theories of critical legal pluralism and psychological theories of narrative identity, this book argues for an understanding of popular culture as legal authority, unmediated by translation into state law. In narrating our identities, we draw upon collective cultural narratives, and our narrative/nomos obligational selves become the nexus for law and popular culture as mutually constitutive discourse. The author demonstrates the efficacy and desirability of applying a pluralist legal analysis to examine a much broader scope of subject matter than is possible through the restricted perspective of state law alone. The study considers whether presumptively illegal acts might actually be instances of a re-imagined, alternative legality, and the concomitant implications. As an illustrative example, works of critical dystopia and the beliefs and behaviours of eco/animal-terrorists can be understood as shared narrative and normative commitments that constitute law just as fully as does the state when it legislates and adjudicates. This book will be of great interest to academics and scholars of law and popular culture, as well as those involved in interdisciplinary work in legal pluralism.

Author : Steven Greenfield,Guy Osborn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134223541

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Readings in Law and Popular Culture by Steven Greenfield,Guy Osborn Pdf

Readings in Law and Popular Culture is the first book to bring together high quality research, with an emphasis on context, from key researchers working at the cutting-edge of both law and cultural disciplines. Fascinating and varied, the volume crosses many boundaries, dealing with areas as diverse as football-based computer games, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, digital sampling in the music industry, the films of Sidney Lumet, football hooliganism, and Enid Blyton. These topics are linked together through the key thread of the role of, or the absence of, law - therefore providing a snapshot of significant work in the burgeoning field of law and popular culture. Including important theoretical and truly innovative, relevant material, this contemporary text will enliven and inform a legal audience, and will also appeal to a much broader readership of people interested in this highly topical area.

Author : Julian Hermida
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000170634

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Teaching Law and Criminal Justice Through Popular Culture by Julian Hermida Pdf

This volume shows how university and college professors can create an engaging environment that encourages students to take a deep approach to learning through the use of popular culture stories in law school and in criminal justice classrooms. The use of popular culture (films, TV shows, books, songs, etc.) can enhance the deep learning process by helping students develop cognitive skills, competencies, and practices that are essential for the professional practice of law and criminal justice and which are often neglected in traditional law school and criminal justice curricula. The book covers such topics as: critical thinking skills in legal and criminal justice education the role of popular culture in educating for rapid cognition factors that foster intrinsic motivation using storytelling in law and criminal justice teaching with popular culture stories popular culture and media literacy in the classroom lawyers and criminal justice agents and their dealings with the press influence of popular culture stories in the legal and criminal justice fields regulations for the use of media texts in the legal and criminal justice fields how stereotyping is influenced by popular media how to prepare a promising syllabus or course outline This unique book is the result of the author’s many years of teaching as well as of many meaningful discussions in seminars and teaching and learning workshops that he facilitated. This very easy-to-read and entertaining volume will show readers how to enhance their classes by creating a motivating and engaging environment that will foster students’ deep learning experiences.

Author : Ashley Pearson,Thomas Giddens,Kieran Tranter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781351470506

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Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture by Ashley Pearson,Thomas Giddens,Kieran Tranter Pdf

In a world of globalised media, Japanese popular culture has become a signifi cant fountainhead for images, narrative, artefacts, and identity. From Pikachu, to instantly identifi able manga memes, to the darkness of adult anime, and the hyper- consumerism of product tie- ins, Japan has bequeathed to a globalised world a rich variety of ways to imagine, communicate, and interrogate tradition and change, the self, and the technological future. Within these foci, questions of law have often not been far from the surface: the crime and justice of Astro Boy; the property and contract of Pokémon; the ecological justice of Nausicaä; Shinto’s focus on order and balance; and the anxieties of origins in J- horror. This volume brings together a range of global scholars to refl ect on and critically engage with the place of law and justice in Japan’s popular cultural legacy. It explores not only the global impact of this legacy, but what the images, games, narratives, and artefacts that comprise it reveal about law, humanity, justice, and authority in the twenty-first century.

Author : Richard K. Sherwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226752917

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When Law Goes Pop by Richard K. Sherwin Pdf

"When Law Goes Pop" is an examination of legal practice in today's world, one that should be needed by everyone concerned with the future of our legal system and the meaning we invest in it.

Author : Christine Corcos
Publisher : Carolina Academic Press LLC
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 1531015638

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The Media Method by Christine Corcos Pdf

Author : Richard McMahon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134007424

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Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900 by Richard McMahon Pdf

This book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onwards. How was crime understood and dealt with by ordinary people and to what degree did they resort to or reject the official law and criminal justice system as a means of dealing with different forms of criminal activity? Overall, the volume will serve to illuminate how experiences of and attitudes to crime and the law may have corresponded or differed in different locations and contexts as well as contributing to a wider understanding of popular culture and consciousness in early modern and modern Europe.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780817356781

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Imagining Legality by Austin Sarat Pdf

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 system remind us not only of the way law lives in our imagination but also of the contingencies of our own legal and social arrangements. Contributors to Imagining Legality are less interested in the accuracy of the portrayals of law in film and television than in exploring the conditions of law’s representation, circulation, and consumption in those media. In the same way that legal scholars have taken on the disciplinary perspectives of history, economics, sociology, anthropology, and psychology in relation to the law, these writers bring historical, sociological, and cultural analysis, as well as legal theory, to aid in the understanding of law and popular culture.

Author : Cassandra Sharp,Marett Leiboff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317626251

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Cultural Legal Studies by Cassandra Sharp,Marett Leiboff Pdf

What can law’s popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and interrogative critical practice? This collection explores such a question through the lens of the ‘cultural legal studies’ movement, which proffers a new encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law and legal theory. Moving beyond the ‘law ands’ (literature, humanities, culture, film, visual and aesthetics) on which it is based, this book demonstrates how the techniques and practices of cultural legal studies can be used to metamorphose law and the legalities that underpin its popular imaginary. By drawing on three different modes of cultural legal studies – storytelling, technology and jurisprudence – the collection showcases the intersectional practices of cultural legal studies, and law in its popular cultural mode. The contributors to the collection deploy differentiated modes of cultural legal studies practice, adopting diverse philosophical, disciplinary, methodological and theoretical approaches and subjects of examination. The collection draws on this mix of diversity and homogeneity to thread together its overarching theme: that we must take seriously an interrogation of law as culture and in its cultural form. That is, it does not ask how a text ‘represents’ law; but rather how the representational nature of both law and culture intersect so that the ‘juridical’ become visible in various cultural manifestations. In short, it asks: how law’s popular cultures actively effect the metamorphosis of law.

Author : Jennifer L. Schulz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429602047

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Mediation & Popular Culture by Jennifer L. Schulz Pdf

This book examines mediation topics such as impartiality, self-determination and fair outcomes through popular culture lenses. Popular television shows and award-winning films are used as illustrative examples to illuminate under-represented mediation topics such as feelings and expert intuition, conflicts of interest and repeat business, and deception and caucusing. The author also employs research from Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States of America to demonstrate that real and reel mediation may have more in common than we think. How mediation is imagined in popular culture, compared to how professors teach it and how mediators practise it, provides important affective, ethical, legal, personal and pedagogical insights relevant for mediators, lawyers, professors and students, and may even help develop mediator identity.

Author : William P. MacNeil
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780804753678

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Lex Populi by William P. MacNeil Pdf

This is a book about jurisprudence—or legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration are—to say the least—unorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Million Dollar Baby, and other cultural products are all referenced as exemplary instances of what the author calls lex populi—“people’s” or “pop law.” There, more than anywhere else, will one find the leading issues of legal philosophy. These issues, however, are heavily coded, for few of these pop cultural texts announce themselves as expressly legal. Nonetheless, Lex Populi reads these texts “jurisprudentially,” that is, with an eye to their hidden legal philosophical meanings, enabling connections such as: Tolkien’s Ring as Kelsen’s grundnorm; vampire slaying as legal language’s semiosis; Hogwarts as substantively unjust; and a seriously injured young woman as termination’s rights-bearer. In so doing, Lex Populi attempts not only a jurisprudential reading of popular culture, but a popular rereading of jurisprudence, removing it from the legal experts in order to restore it to the public at large: a lex populi by and for the people.

Author : Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780472087013

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Law in the Domains of Culture by Austin Sarat,Thomas R. Kearns Pdf

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Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781479861958

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Punishment in Popular Culture by Austin Sarat Pdf

Resource added for the Criminal Justice – Law Enforcement 105046 and Professional Studies 105045 programs.