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Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law
Sarah Kozinn
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Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 8 bw illus. BIC Classification: AN; APT; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law is the first study of the reality TV genre to trace its theatrical legacy, connecting the phenomenon of the daytime TV shows to a long history of theatrical trials staged to educate audiences in pedagogies of citizenship. It examines how judge TV fulfills part of law's performative function: that of providing a participatory spectacle the public can recognize as justice. Since it debuted in 1981 with The People's Court, which made famous its star jurist, Judge Joseph A. Wapner, dozens of judges have made the move to television. Unlike ... Read more
Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law is the first study of the reality TV genre to trace its theatrical legacy, connecting the phenomenon of the daytime TV shows to a long history of theatrical trials staged to educate audiences in pedagogies of citizenship. It examines how judge TV fulfills part of law's performative function: that of providing a participatory spectacle the public can recognize as justice. Since it debuted in 1981 with The People's Court, which made famous its star jurist, Judge Joseph A. Wapner, dozens of judges have made the move to television. Unlike ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472527844
SKU
V9781472527844
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About Sarah Kozinn
Sarah Kozinn is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theater at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a scholar of law and performance, develops new works for film, TV and the web, and acts professionally in film, theater and television.
Reviews for Justice Performed: Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Popular Law
Justice Performed is a very welcome addition to the field of media and performance studies. Kozinn’s unique contribution to the literature is that she views the shows through the lens of performance theory, rather than the legalistic perspective employed by most researchers.
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