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...
Law and Justice as Seen on TV examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaugh...
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...
Law and Justice as Seen on TV examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaught of law-r...
In this book, the author places the TV movie in a historical and institutional framework and brilliantly examines the various, dominant types of TV movies in terms of narrative and textual strategies. In this full-length study of its kind, it analyzes a true 'TV invention'--one that is both fascinating and significant.
In this book, the author places the TV movie in a historical and institutional framework and brilliantly examines the various, dominant types of TV mo...
