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Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions - 2nd Edition - David Papke

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9780769847535
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Carolina Academic Press
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2nd Edition
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Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions 2nd Edition David Papke ISBN 9780769847535

The Second Edition of Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions preserves the most valued features of the First Edition, originally published in 2007, while offering meaningful updates and expansions.

Each chapter opens with a list of widely accessible Hollywood films that relate to the chapter’s themes. Following an introduction to the study of popular culture and an explanation of the book’s objectives, the chapters are organized into two broad categories. One half examines popular culture portrayals of legal institutions and participants, including law schools, the legal profession, clients, witnesses, judges, and juries. The other half focuses on specific areas of law, such as Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Torts, Business Law, Family Law, and International Law.

The book continues to include more than one hundred excerpts from leading scholars in the field of law and popular culture. While many of these selections appeared in the First Edition, a significant number are newly added to this Second Edition. Film remains the dominant medium analyzed throughout the text.

The Second Edition also introduces several important new features. A newly added chapter on Punishment explores the extensive body of popular cultural works addressing imprisonment and capital punishment. In addition, the notes and commentary sections now place greater emphasis on law-related imagery and representations in other media, including television, popular fiction, children’s literature, and comic books. Finally, the book shifts its focus toward examining the causes, forms, and consequences of law-related popular culture, moving somewhat away from simply identifying legal inaccuracies in popular media or using popular culture as a tool to teach black-letter law.

Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions 2nd Edition David Papke ISBN 9780769847535, 978-0769847535 & 9780327174356

Authors
David Papke
Christine A. Corcos
Peter Huang
Lenora Ledwon
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
Philip Meyer
Binny Miller
Sean O'Brien