Law and Justice As Seen on TV
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Law and Justice As Seen on TV by Elayne Rapping
What's going on with the rise of tv law programs - both fictional and documentary, and how does that affect our lives and real court rooms.
Law and Justice as Seen on TV provides a comprehensive and sophisticated look at the ways law appears nightly in the living rooms of millions of AmericansCombining valuable insights about the workings of the television industry with an insightful argument about the criminalization of American life, Elayne Rapping has made a distinctive contribution to interdisciplinary legal scholarship. Her work shows how valuable the analysis of popular culture can be in illuminating some of the most important legal and social issues of our time. -- Austin Sarat,William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
In recent years, an expanding wave of law and criminal justice programs has emerged on American television. Elayne Rapping proves a masterful guide in her overview of a wide range of TV narrative fiction series, Court TV, talk shows, news, and other programs that deals with law, order, criminality, and justice, contextualizing TV crime and justice in the context of fierce political battles over these topics in the past decades of American history. -- Douglas Kellner,author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle
Law and Justice as Seen on TV is deliberately provocative. * Akron Beacon Journal *
Lively and engagingly written, it explores as Rapping writes, "an interplay of aesthetics, politics, and legal history [that] come together in complex and often contradictory ways. Anyone who has watched these shows will appreciate seeing them in a new way. Much of the enjoyment in reading the book comes from Rapping's ability to draw on a wide range of cultural and intellectual interests and present them in down-to-earth language. * Trial *
Accessible and lucid. * www.sirreadalot.org *
In recent years, an expanding wave of law and criminal justice programs has emerged on American television. Elayne Rapping proves a masterful guide in her overview of a wide range of TV narrative fiction series, Court TV, talk shows, news, and other programs that deals with law, order, criminality, and justice, contextualizing TV crime and justice in the context of fierce political battles over these topics in the past decades of American history. -- Douglas Kellner,author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle
Law and Justice as Seen on TV is deliberately provocative. * Akron Beacon Journal *
Lively and engagingly written, it explores as Rapping writes, "an interplay of aesthetics, politics, and legal history [that] come together in complex and often contradictory ways. Anyone who has watched these shows will appreciate seeing them in a new way. Much of the enjoyment in reading the book comes from Rapping's ability to draw on a wide range of cultural and intellectual interests and present them in down-to-earth language. * Trial *
Accessible and lucid. * www.sirreadalot.org *
Elayne Rapping is a Professor of Women's Studies and Media Studies at SUNY Buffalo and a nationally known media critic and analyst, whose work has appeared in The Village Voice, Newsday, The Nation, Cineaste, and other publications. Her recent books include Media-tions: Forays into the Culture and Gender Wars and The Culture of Recovery: Making Sense of the Self-Help movement in Women's Lives. She lives in Buffalo and Manhattan.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780814775615 |
| ISBN 10 | 0814775616 |
| Title | Law and Justice As Seen on TV |
| Author | Elayne Rapping |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New York University Press |
| Year published | 2003-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 309 |
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