Law and Popular Culture

Law and Popular Culture
Author: Michael Asimow
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780820458151
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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.

The Media Method

The Media Method
Author: Christine Corcos
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781531015633
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Readings in Law and Popular Culture

Readings in Law and Popular Culture
Author: Steven Greenfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2007-05-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134223544
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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.

When Law Goes Pop

When Law Goes Pop
Author: Richard K. Sherwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2000-06-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780226752914
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"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.

Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture

Law and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture
Author: Ashley Pearson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2018-06-27
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1351470507
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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.

Law and Popular Culture

Law and Popular Culture
Author: Michael D. A. Freeman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN:
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'Law and Popular Culture' contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and popular culture. Topics include: law in fiction, law and popular music crime and punishment in popular culture and the law on sexuality and media representations of lesbianism.

Popular Culture and Legal Pluralism

Popular Culture and Legal Pluralism
Author: Wendy A Adams
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2016-06-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1317078284
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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.

Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900

Crime, Law and Popular Culture in Europe, 1500-1900
Author: Richard McMahon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134007426
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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.

Law and Popular Culture

Law and Popular Culture
Author: Michael Asimow
Publisher: Vandeplas Pub.
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2020-10-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781600425240
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Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Movies and television shape our perception of law and change how players in the legal system behave. This Book explores the interface between these enormously important subjects.

Law and Popular Culture

Law and Popular Culture
Author: Michael Asimow
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2014-06-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1443861588
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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.