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"In recent years, an expanding wave of law and criminal justice
programs has emerged on American television. Elayne Rapping proves
a masterful guide in her overview of a wide range of TV narrative
fiction series, Court TV, talk shows, news, and other programs that
deals with law, order, criminality, and justice, contextualizing TV
crime and justice in the context of fierce political battles over
these topics in the past decades of American history."
--Douglas Kellner, author of "Media Culture and Media
Spectacle"
"Lively and engagingly written, it explores as Rapping writes,
"an interplay of aesthetics, politics, and legal history [that]
come together in complex and often contradictory ways. Anyone who
has watched these shows will appreciate seeing them in a new way.
Much of the enjoyment in reading the book comes from Rapping's
ability to draw on a wide range of cultural and intellectual
interests and present them in down-to-earth language."
--"Trial"
"Accessible and lucid."
--"www.sirreadalot.org"
""Law and Justice as Seen on TV" is deliberately
provocative."
--"Akron Beacon Journal"
""Law and Justice as Seen on TV" provides a comprehensive and
sophisticated look at the ways law appears nightly in the living
rooms of millions of Americans. Combining valuable insights about
the workings of the television industry with an insightful argument
about the criminalization of American life, Elayne Rapping has made
a distinctive contribution to interdisciplinary legal scholarship.
Her work shows how valuable the analysis of popular culture can be
in illuminating some of the most important legal and socialissues
of our time."
--Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence
and Political Science, Amherst College
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 TV and its
various contradictions and shifts, since the late 1940s to the
present, the book analyzes the various entertainment series and
genres that have so proliferated in recent years, giving special
attention to such popular and influential series as "Law and Order"
and "Cops." The second section begins by charting the complex and
contested history of the coming of cameras to the courtroom and the
way in which that legal decision led to televised trials and to the
rise of Court TV. It examines as especially interesting and
important the major trials--such as those of the Menendez brothers,
O.J. Simpson, and Timothy McVeigh--which helped to shape the way
television came to frame trials and their social implications for
public consumption. From there it examines major social
issues--gender violence, youth crime, family dysfunction, victims'
rights which, with the rise of the courtroom as a major political
and television arena, have come to be viewed largely aslegal issues
to be discussed and determined in legal terms by Americans in
general.
Accessible and lucid, Law and Justice as Seen on TV concludes
with an examination of the broad implications of this social and
cultural trend, closing with some thoughts about its expansion, on
television and in the actual legal arena, during the "war on
terrorism" in the wake of 9/11.
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