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Justice Performed - Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law (Hardcover)
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Justice Performed - Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law (Hardcover)
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"Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular
Law" is the first study of the reality TV genre to trace its
theatrical legacy, connecting the phenomenon of the daytime TV
shows to a long history of theatrical trials staged to educate
audiences in pedagogies of citizenship. It examines how judge TV
fulfills part of law's performative function: that of providing a
participatory spectacle the public can recognize as justice. Since
it debuted in 1981 with "The People's Court," which made famous its
star jurist, Judge Joseph A. Wapner, dozens of judges have made the
move to television. Unlike the demographics in actual courts, most
TV judges are non-white men and women hailing from diverse cultural
and racial backgrounds. These judges charge their decisions with
personal preferences and cultural innuendos, painting a very
different picture of what justice looks like. Drawing on interviews
with judge TV judges, producers and production staff, as well as
the author's experience as a studio audience member, the book
scrutinizes the performativity of the genre, the needs it meets and
the inherent ideological biases about race, gender and civic
instruction.
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