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Law and Justice as Seen on TV /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
New York University Press,
[2003]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Fiction and Entertainment Genres
- 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 the New Face of Criminal Violence
- 3 Signs of the Times: Oz and the Sudden Visibility of Prisons on Television
- Part II News and Documentary Genres
- 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
- Conclusion: The Criminalization of American Life
- Notes
- Index