Add to ORKGTaking Thomas McLaughlin's idea of vernacular theory as its starting point, this paper explores the evolution of what can be termed vernacular jurisprudence, popular theories of law as presented in visual media. From case studies of Boston Legal, Dexter and 24, to the increasingly problematic portrayal of law and lawyering in legal television dramas more generally, this paper outlines how popular visual media both challenge and are challenging for the discipline of law and thus serves to contextualize the papers in this session
In tandem with contemporary modern society becoming increasingly dependent upon visuality, new trend...
Although occasional articles on law and the media have been published in Law and Human Behavior, thi...
Book synopsis: Law and Popular Culture contains a collection of essays which explore the ways in whi...
This chapter uses Saussurean semiotics to explore how law is culturally defined through popular visu...
Two main theses are presented here. The first is that there is a conceptual resemblance between the ...
This Article is an attempt to think critically about the pop cultural life of law, to investigate th...
This highly interdisciplinary reference work brings together diverse fields including cultural studi...
The study of law has been slow to look beyond its narrow professional concerns at the social cultura...
This paper reevaluates Frankfurt School theory, and other cultural critiques, in an effort to bring ...
This chapter examines an issue which has attracted only limited attention in the literature on law a...
The American trial and American cinema share certain epistemological tendencies. Both stake claims t...
Lawyers, judges, and jurors face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument inside the cont...
This article examines how the concept of 'law' is culturally defined through a semiotic analysis of ...
Although occasional articles on law and the media have been published in Law and Human Behavior, thi...
Originally described by Richard Sherwin of New York Law School as the law and film movement's 'found...
In tandem with contemporary modern society becoming increasingly dependent upon visuality, new trend...
Although occasional articles on law and the media have been published in Law and Human Behavior, thi...
Book synopsis: Law and Popular Culture contains a collection of essays which explore the ways in whi...
This chapter uses Saussurean semiotics to explore how law is culturally defined through popular visu...
Two main theses are presented here. The first is that there is a conceptual resemblance between the ...
This Article is an attempt to think critically about the pop cultural life of law, to investigate th...
This highly interdisciplinary reference work brings together diverse fields including cultural studi...
The study of law has been slow to look beyond its narrow professional concerns at the social cultura...
This paper reevaluates Frankfurt School theory, and other cultural critiques, in an effort to bring ...
This chapter examines an issue which has attracted only limited attention in the literature on law a...
The American trial and American cinema share certain epistemological tendencies. Both stake claims t...
Lawyers, judges, and jurors face a vast array of visual evidence and visual argument inside the cont...
This article examines how the concept of 'law' is culturally defined through a semiotic analysis of ...
Although occasional articles on law and the media have been published in Law and Human Behavior, thi...
Originally described by Richard Sherwin of New York Law School as the law and film movement's 'found...
In tandem with contemporary modern society becoming increasingly dependent upon visuality, new trend...
Although occasional articles on law and the media have been published in Law and Human Behavior, thi...
Book synopsis: Law and Popular Culture contains a collection of essays which explore the ways in whi...