Law in the domains of culture / edited by Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin.

Kearns, Thomas R.

Series:

Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

The Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture and law.

Popular culture.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

241 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1998]

Summary:

The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relation to culture is as complex, varied and disputed as the concept of culture itself. The concept of the traditional, unified, reified, civilizing idea of culture has come under attack. The growth of cultural studies has played an important role in redefining culture by radically extending what counts to include popular culture and by including questions of social stratification, power and social conflict.

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 analysts 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.

Contents:

The cultural lives of law / Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns

Contingent articulations : a critical cultural studies of law / Rosemary J. Coombe

The cultural work of copyright : legislating authorship in Britain, 1837-1842 / Martha Woodmansee

Law and the order of popular culture / Carol J. Clover

Cinema scopes : evolution, media, and the law / Marjorie Garber

Clint Eastwood and equity : popular culture's theory of revenge / William Ian Miller

Components of cultural justice / Andrew Ross.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

047210862X

OCLC:

37331518