When Law Goes Pop

When Law Goes Pop

Author: Richard K. Sherwin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000-06-28

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780226752914

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"When Law Goes Pop" is an examination of legal practice in today's world, one that should be needed by everyone concerned with the future of our legal system and the meaning we invest in it.


When Law Goes Pop

When Law Goes Pop

Author: Richard K. Sherwin

Publisher: Barron's Educational Series

Published: 2002-04-15

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780226752921

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Drawing on notoriously popular criminal cases in American history, including television broadcast of trials, Sherwin makes a brilliant examination of legal practice as he explores the consequences when legal culture and popular culture dissolve into each other.


Law and Popular Culture

Law and Popular Culture

Author: Michael Asimow

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780820458151

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This book explores the interface between law and popular culture, two subjects of enormous current importance and influence. Exploring how they affect each other, each chapter discusses a legally themed film or television show, such as Philadelphia or Dead Man Walking, and treats it as both a cultural and a legal text, illustrating how popular culture both constructs our perceptions of law, and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Written without theoretical jargon, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book is intended for use in undergraduate or graduate courses and can be taught by anyone who enjoys pop culture and is interested in law.


K-POP - The Odyssey

K-POP - The Odyssey

Author: Wooseok Ki

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-07

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781636766430

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K-Pop is bigger than it has ever been. Many new artists debut each year and the industry is at an all-time international high. But how did we get here? Is it something more complex and important than mere media headlines? K-POP: The Odyssey - Your Gateway to the Global K-Pop Phenomenon takes you on a journey to explore one of the biggest pop cultural phenomenona in recent history, drawing from stories and interviews from some of the biggest names in the K-Pop industry including: Henry Lau, international popstar, actor and K-Pop veteran Hyuk Shin, multi-platinum record producer behind the hits of stars like EXO, DEAN, and Girls' Generation Peter Chun, former YG Entertainment Director who spearheaded US collaborations for BIGBANG, 2NE1, and Epik High Plus a BTS co-songwriter, academic scholars and more. K-POP: The Odyssey is split into eight parts, with each exploring a facet of the K-Pop phenomenon. Whether you are interested in the idol system, music, business, technology, or fandom, this book will serve as your guide. Are you in?


When Death Goes Pop

When Death Goes Pop

Author: Charlton D. McIlwain

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780820470641

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Scholars, educators, health professionals, and activists from a variety of fields have struggled with one of the most significant questions of contemporary life: How do we rescue the experience of death and dying from the mire of fear, denial, and secrecy that it has been associated with for the better part of a century? In When Death Goes Pop, Charlton D. McIlwain describes a striking emerging shift in the way that death is represented in such omnipresent forms of media as television - a shift that seems to be moving the American discourse on death and dying from the private sphere to the public. The book surveys the past thirty years of death-related television programming, from daytime soaps to prime-time dramas, focusing primarily on Home Box Office's Six Feet Under and its innovative approach to the subject, and from the Sci-Fi Channel's Crossing Over to the genre of paranormal programming as a whole. This book also discusses the increasing use of multimedia and the Internet in the funeral industry and how the new technologies change the way that we remember the dead as they create and sustain what we might call a «virtual community of death».


Who Rules Japan?

Who Rules Japan?

Author: Leon Wolff

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2015-04-30

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1784717495

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The dramatic growth of the Japanese economy in the postwar period, and its meltdown in the 1990s, has attracted sustained interest in the power dynamics underlying the management of Japanês administrative state. Scholars and commentators have long deba


The Social Science of Sport

The Social Science of Sport

Author: Bo Carlsson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1317450558

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In this book questions about definitions and demarcations of sport science are discussed. Not the least the many normative ideas of sport as good or as bad are problematized in relation to the academic field. These ideas permeate sport science in ways that are not seen in other academic fields like history, sociology or law. In addition, if and if so, in what ways sport science influence social science in general. Does sport science bring new questions in relation to issues like "what makes a society possible" or "what is a human being"? This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.


The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law

The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law

Author: Susan Burgess

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1317031423

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Applying innovative interpretive strategies drawn from cultural studies, this book considers the perennial question of law and politics: what role do the founding fathers play in legitimizing contemporary judicial review? Susan Burgess uses narrative analysis, popular culture, parody, and queer theory to better understand and to reconstitute the traditional relationship between fatherhood and judicial review. Unlike traditional, top-down public law analyses that focus on elite decision making by courts, legislatures, or executives, this volume explores the representation of law and legitimacy in various sites of popular culture. To this end, soap operas, romance novels, tabloid newspapers, reality television, and coming out narratives provide alternative ways to understand the relationship between paternal power and law from the bottom up. In this manner, constitutional discourse can begin to be transformed from a dreary parsing of scholarly and juristic argot into a vibrant discussion with points of access and understanding for all.


The Aliites

The Aliites

Author: Spencer Dew

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 022664815X

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“Citizenship is salvation,” preached Noble Drew Ali, leader of the Moorish Science Temple of America in the early twentieth century. Ali’s message was an aspirational call for black Americans to undertake a struggle for recognition from the state, one that would both ensure protection for all Americans through rights guaranteed by the law and correct the unjust implementation of law that prevailed in the racially segregated United States. Ali and his followers took on this mission of citizenship as a religious calling, working to carve out a place for themselves in American democracy and to bring about a society that lived up to what they considered the sacred purpose of the law. In The Aliites, Spencer Dew traces the history and impact of Ali’s radical fusion of law and faith. Dew uncovers the influence of Ali’s teachings, including the many movements they inspired. As Dew shows, Ali’s teachings demonstrate an implicit yet critical component of the American approach to law: that it should express our highest ideals for society, even if it is rarely perfect in practice. Examining this robustly creative yet largely overlooked lineage of African American religious thought, Dew provides a window onto religion, race, citizenship, and law in America.


The Law in Graphic Narratives

The Law in Graphic Narratives

Author: Giuseppe Martinico

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-11-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 3111498689

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Comics, manga and anime can offer an interesting perspective from which to explore representations of the law in popular culture. This book offers a better understanding of the juridical subtexts of such cultural artefacts by bringing together scholars in legal theory and comparative and international law. While the contributions in the first part of the volume unpack the relationships between normative systems (law and morality above all) in graphic narratives by Marvel (Daredevil) and DC heroes (Batman), the second part of the volume looks at the role played by law and lawyers in different legal systems through case studies such as She Hulk. Finally, the last part focusses on the role of international law in the comic (multi)universe and in Japanese animation movies such as Porco rosso). This collection extends research into comics beyond Anglo-American culture, which is still hegemonic in this literature, and makes it possible to read the legal phenomena dealt with in the pop culture products analysed through a lens other than that of Anglo-American law.