Changing Images of Law in Film and Television Crime Stories
©2012
Textbook
XIV,
194 Pages
Series:
Politics, Media, and Popular Culture, Volume 7
Summary
One of the most important legal developments in the last half of the twentieth century was the change from criminal justice policies shaped primarily by liberal ideas to those shaped primarily by conservative ideas. This book examines images of law in Hollywood films and television crime dramas to better understand this conservative revolution in thinking about crime. The crime stories depicted in popular legal fiction provide interesting as well as insightful perspectives on law in American society, particularly changing images of justice and its administration as well as individual rights.
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 194
- Publication Year
- 2012
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9780820457925
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Hollywood Legal fiction American society Right
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2012. XIV, 194 pp., 6 ill.
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