Law and Justice as Seen on TV,Elayne Rapping

Law and Justice As Seen on TVAuthor(s): Elayne Rapping\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814775615, 978-0814775615\nSynopsis\nLaw and Justice as Seen on TV examines the impact, significance, and social and political problems raised by the enormous onslaught of law-related television programming, both fiction and nonfiction, in the years since the rise of live televised trials as major media events. The book weaves together the various strandsmedia history and analysis, legal history and policy, and the national turn to the political right in the last decadeswhich gave birth to this trend and has kept it thriving and growing, by leaps and bounds, to the present day.\nBeginning with the history of courtroom drama on TV and its various contradictions and shifts, since the late 1940s to the present, the book analyzes the various entertainment series and genres that have so proliferated in recent years.