الناشر | Routledge-Cavendish |
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 13 | 9781904385332 |
رقم الكتاب المعياري الدولي 10 | 1904385338 |
الكاتب | Lieve Gies |
اللغة | English |
وصف الكتاب | Introducing readers to the study of law, media and popular culture, this text, using three original case studies, re-examines the assumptions underpinning existing research and suggests alternatives.Arguing that the study of law, media and popular culture should be embedded in the sociology of everyday life, the author focuses on four specific topics, in which there is scope for further development. These are the facts that:the current literature in this field predominantly focuses on crime, neglecting the way the media portrays less spectacular, more run-of-the-mill legal topicsfiction, primarily, has captured scholars' attention, with remarkably less being paid to representations of law, other than crime, in factual mediatextual analysis continues to be the preferred method in the study of law and the mediathe literature is dominated by a fear of corrosive media effects, while the potential of the media and popular culture to improve public legal knowledge, facilitate access to justice and promote legal change remains largely undocumented.Exploring the often uneasy relationship between law and popular culture from specific socio-legal perspectives, including systems theory, semiotics of law and legal pluralism, this book is an essential read for those studying and researching in this area. |
عن المؤلف | Lieve Gies is a lecturer in the School of Law at Keele University. Her main research interest is in the study of law and society from the vantage point of media and popular culture. Her current work seeks to understand law as a form of social communication. |
تاريخ النشر | 29 November 2007 |
عدد الصفحات | 178 pages |