Law in the domains of culture
By: edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns .
Contributors: Sarat, Austin.; Kearns, Thomas R.
Series: The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Culture and law.; Popular culture.; Mass media.
Description: "Law and legal studies are relative latecomers to cultural studies. As scholars have come to see law as not something apart from culture and society, they have begun to explore the connections between law and culture. Focusing on the production, interpretation, consumption, and circulation of legal meaning, these scholars suggest that law is inseparable from the interests, goals, and understandings that deeply shape or compromise social life. Against this background, Law in the Domains of Culture brings the insights and approaches of cultural studies to law and tries to secure for law a place in cultural analysis. This book provides a sampling of significant theoretical issues in the cultural analysis of law and illustrates some of those issues in provocative examples of the genre. Law in the Domains of Culture is designed to encourage the still tentative efforts to forge a new interdisciplinary synthesis, cultural studies of law."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The cultural lives of law / Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns; title: Contingent articulations : a critical cultural studies of law / Rosemary J. Coombe; title: The cultural work of copyright : legislating authorship in Britain, 1837-1842 / Martha Woodmansee; title: Law and the order of popular culture / Carol J. Clover; title: Cinema scopes : evolution, media, and the law / Marjorie Garber; title: Clint Eastwood and equity : popular culture's theory of revenge / William Ian Miller; title: Components of cultural justice / Andrew Ross.