Imagining legality
Subtitle: where law meets popular culture
By: edited by Austin Sarat
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780817356781; 9780817385712
Subjects: Law in motion pictures; Popular culture; Law; Law on television
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What popular culture does for, and to, law : an introduction /  Austin Sarat; title: Trust us justice : 24, popular culture, and the law / Desmond Manderson; title: Law's visual afterlife : violence, popular culture, and translation theory / Naomi Mezey; title: Law's screen life : criminal predators and what to do about them : popular imperatives from screen-based reality / Richard K. Sherwin; title: Real justice : law and order on reality television / Laurie Ouellette; title: The responsibilities of the cyranoid citizen / Anna McCarthy.