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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kearns, Thomas R.

Sarat, Austin.

Series:

The 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:

1 online resource (241 p. )

Edition:

1st pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The concept of culture is troublingly vague and, at the same time, hotly contested, and law's relations to culture are 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 including popular culture and 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 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. The contributors are Carol Clover, Rosemary Coombe, Marjorie Garber, Thomas R. Kearns, William Miller, Andrew Ross, Austin Sarat, and Martha Woodmansee. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College. Thomas R. Kearns is William H. Hastie Professor of Philosophy, Amherst College.

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:

Originally published: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9786612437779

9781282437777

1282437771

9780472023639

0472023632

OCLC:

593240020