Law and Justice as Seen on TV / Elayne Rapping.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rapping, Elayne, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lawyers on television.

Justice, Administration of, on television.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Law and Justice as Seen on TV examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaught of law-related television programming, both fiction and nonfiction, in the years since the rise of live televised trials as major media events. The book weaves together the various strands-media history and analysis, legal history and policy, and the national turn to the political right in the last decades-which gave birth to this trend and has kept it thriving and growing, by leaps and bounds, to the present day. Beginning with the history of courtroom drama on T

Contents:

1. The return of the attorney-hero: politics and justice in the prime time courtroom

2. Aliens, nomads, mad dogs, and road warriors: tabloid TV and new face of criminal violence

3. Signs of the times: "OZ" and the sudden visibility of prisons on television

4. Cameras, court TV, and the rise of the criminal trial as major media event

5. The politics of representation: gender, violence, and criminal justice

6. Television and family dysfunction: from the talk show to the courtroom

7. Television and the demonization of youth

8. Television, melodrama, and the rise of the victims' rights movement.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-6910-1

OCLC:

780425935