The Big Trial : Law as Public Spectacle /
The trial of O.J. Simpson was a sensation, avidly followed by millions of people, but it was also, in a sense, nothing new. One hundred years earlier the Lizzie Borden trial had held the nation in thrall. The names (and the crimes) may change, but the appeal is enduring - and why this is, how it wor...
Autor principal: | |
---|---|
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2015]
|
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
|
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Law and its audience
- Open to the public : the headline trial
- Political trials
- Corruption and fraud
- Was justice done?
- Tabloid trials
- Celebrity trials
- Mystery and identity
- The worm in the bud
- The reason why
- Who are we : identity and the headline trial
- Enter the media
- Instant celebrity
- A concluding word.