Law and justice as seen on TV /
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New York :
New York University Press,
c2003
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The return of the attorney-hero: politics and justice in the prime time courtroom
- 2. Aliens, nomads, mad dogs, and road warriors: tabloid TV and new face of criminal violence
- 3. Signs of the times: "OZ" and the sudden visibility of prisons on television
- 4. Cameras, court TV, and the rise of the criminal trial as major media event
- 5. The politics of representation: gender, violence, and criminal justice
- 6. Television and family dysfunction: from the talk show to the courtroom
- 7. Television and the demonization of youth
- 8. Television, melodrama, and the rise of the victims' rights movement