Popular Culture and Law

Richard Sherwin is Professor and Director of the Visual Persuasion Project at New York Law School, USA.

Contents; Introductory essay: The interpenetration of popular culture and law, Richard K. Sherwin. Law in Popular Culture: Law, lawyers and popular culture, Lawrence M. Friedman; Looking for law in all the old traces: the movies of Classical Hollywood, the law, and case(s) of film noir, Norman Rosenberg; Postcolonial erotic disruptions: legal narratives of culture, sex and nation in India, Ratna Kapur; Living in a Copernican universe: law and fatherhood in a 'perfect world', Austin Sarat. Popular Culture in Law: 'Desperate for love': cinematic influences upon a defendant's closing argument to a jury, Philip N. Meyer; Law frames: historical truth and narrative necessity in a criminal case, Richard K. Sherwin; The impact of factual versus fictional media portrayals on cultural stereotypes, Sheila T. Murphy; Slap leather! Legal culture, Wild Bill Hickok and the gunslinger myth, Steve Lubet. Law as Commodity: A new constitutional regime: the juridico-entertainment complex, Douglas S. Reed: Litigation public relations, Susanne A. Roschwalb and Richard A. Stack; An oil strike in hell: contemporary legends about the civil justice system, Marc Galanter; From law to content in the new media marketplace, Daniel M. Filler. Law in Cyberspace: The laws of virtual worlds, F. Gregory Lastowka and Dan Hunter; Digital speech and democratic culture: a theory of freedom of expression for the information society, Jack M. Balkin. Pop Culture and Law in Theory: Gaining/losing perspective on the law, or keeping visual evidence in perspective, Christopher J. Buccafusco; Toward a legal theory of popular culture, Anthony Chase; Index.