Law and Popular Culture

PART I: INTRODUCTORY THEMES 1. Peter ROBSON: Law And Film Studies - Autonomy and Theory 2. Desmond MANDERSON: Where The Wild Things Really Are: Children's Literature And The Law 3. David SEYMOUR: The Absence of Contradiction And The Contradiction of Absence: Law, Ethics And The Holocaust PART II: REEL JUSTICE 4. Richard SHERWIN: Law's Enchantment: The Cinematic Jurisprudence of Krzystztof Kieslowski 5. Francis NEVINS: When Celluloid Lawyers Started To Speak: Exploring Juriscinema's First Golden Age 6. Paul BERGMAN: "Emergency!" Send A TV Show To Rescue Paramedic Services! 7. Stefan MACHURA: Procedural Unfairness In Real and Film Trials. Why Do Audiences Understand Stories Placed In Foreign Legal Systems? 8. Matthias KUZINA: Military Justice In American Film And Television Drama: Starting Points For Ideological Criticism 9. Lynda NEAD: Courtroom Sketching: Reflections On History, Law And The Image 10. John DENVIR: What Movies Can Teach Law Students PART III: THE NOVEL 11. Marlene TROMP: Popular Fiction And Domestic law: East Lynne, Justice, And The "Order Of The Undecidable" 12. Melanie WILLIAMS: Law's Agent: Cultivated Citizen Or Popular Savage? The Crash Of The Moral Mirror 13. Leslie MORAN: Law's Diabolical Romance: Reflections On A New Jurisprudence Of The Sublime 14. David Ray PAPKE: Re-Imaging The Practice Of Law: Popular Twentieth-Century Fiction By American Lawyer-Authors 15. Adam GEAREY: The Materiality Of Symbols: J G Ballard And Jurisprudence: Law, Image, Reproduction 16. Claire VALIER: L'Oeuil qui Pense. The Emotive As Grounds For The Pensive In Phenomenological Reflection PART IV: MUSIC 17. Milner S BALL: Doing Time And Doing It In Style 18. Thilo TETZLAFF: Why Law Needs Pop - Global Law And Global Music PART V: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 19. Nicole RAFTER: Badfellas: Movie Psychos, Popular Culture, And Law 20. Roberta M HARDING: Reel Violence: Popular Culture And Concerns About Capital Punishment In Contemporary American Society 21. Lawrence M FRIEDMAN: Public And Private Eyes 22. Michael ROBERTSON: Seeing Blind Spots: Corporate Misconduct In Film And Law 23. Stuart WEINSTEIN: Repressed Memory Revisited: Popular Culture's Impact On The Law - Psychotherapy Debate 24. Anne S Y CHEUNG: What Law Cannot Give: "From The Queen To The Chief Executive" PART VI: LAW, SEXUALITY AND THE POPULAR CULTURE 25. Jenni MILLBANK: It's About This: Lesbians, Prison, Desire 26. Didi HERMAN: "Juliet And Juliet Would Be More My Cup Of Tea": Sexuality, Law And Popular Culture PART VII: HUMAN RIGHTS 27. Christian DELAGE: Image As To Evidence And Mediation: The Experience Of The Nuremberg Trials 28. Carolyn Patty BLUM: Film, Culture and Accountability For Human Rights Abuses 29. Wae Chee DIMOCK: Science Fiction As A World Tribunal PART VIII: SOME OTHER CULTURAL PHENOMENA 30. Malcolm VOYCE: Neoliberalism, Shopping Malls and The End of "Property"? 31. Rex J AHDAR: "Do You Want Fries With That?" The Franchise As a Cultural And Legal Phenomenon PART 1X: LAW, LAWYERING AND THE POPULAR CULTURE 32. Carrie MENKEL-MEADOW: Legal Negotiation In Popular Culture: What Are We Bargaining For? 33. Michael ASIMOW: Popular Culture And The American Adversarial Ideology 34. Steve GREENFIELD and Guy OSBORN: The Double Meaning Of Law: Does It Matter If Film Lawyers Are Unethical? 35. Philip N MEYER: Adaptation: What Post-Conviction Relief Practitioners In Death Penalty Cases Might Learn From Popular Storytellers About Narrative Persuasion 36. David A BLACK: Narrative Determination And The Figure Of The Judge

Law and Popular Culture contains a broad range of essays by scholars interested in the interactions between law and popular culture. The volume includes amongst other topics, discussions of law and lawyers as represented in the cinema; law in fiction; law and popular music; crime and punishment in popular culture; and the law on sexuality and media representations of lesbianism.