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This volume gathers a collection of the most seminal essays written by leading experts in the fields of law, and cultural studies, which address the cultural dimension of trials
Contents: Introduction: legal performances and public cultures; Part I Trials as Sites of Performance and Narrative: 'The play's the thing': an unscientific reflection on courts under the rubric of theater, Milner S. Ball; The lawfulness of the American trial, Robert P. Burns; An analysis of closing arguments to a jury, Anthony G. Amsterdam and Randy Hertz; Law frames: historical truth and narrative necessity in a criminal case, Richard K. Sherwin; Speaking of death: narratives of violence in capital trials, Austin Sarat. Part II Evidence and the Production of Truth: Just the facts, Ma'am: sexualized violence, evidentiary habits and the revision of truth, Kim Lane Scheppele; Theaters of proof; visual evidence and the law in Call Northside 777, Jennifer L. Mnookin and Nancy West; Film as witness: screening Nazi Concentration Camps before the Nuremberg Tribunal, Lawrence Douglas; A reporter at large: doubt, William Finnegan. Part III Dialogics of Law and Culture: Story and transcription in the trial of John Brown, Robert A. Ferguson; Rats, pigs, and statues on trial: the creation of cultural narratives in the prosecution of animals and inanimate objects, Paul Schiff Berman; Constructing a common language: the function of Nuremberg in the problematization of postapartheid justice, St ane Leman-Langlois; 'The Trial': a parody of law amid the mockery of men in post-colonial Papua New Guinea, David Lipset; Forms of judicial blindness, or the evidence of what cannot be seen: traumatic narratives and legal repetitions in the O.J. Simpson case and in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata, Shoshana Felman; Index.
