Popular trials rhetoric, mass media, and the law
Contemporary scholarship illustrates the law's increasingly powerful role in American life; legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication. This book addresses these interests through critical study of eight popular trials: the 17th-century trial of Dr. He...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press
1993.
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| Edición: | 1st paperbound ed |
| Colección: | Studies Rhetoric & Communicati
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798347006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Performing the Laws: Popular Trials and Social Knowledge; 2. Constitutional Argument in a National Theater: The Impeachment Trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell; 3. Two Stories of the Scopes Trial: Legal and Journalistic Articulations of the Legitimacy of Science and Religion; 4. Constraints on Persuasion in the Chicago Seven Trial; 5. Power, Knowledge, and Insanity: The Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr.; 6. The Claus von Bulow Retrial: Lights, Camera, Genre?; 7. The Saga of Roger Hedgecock: A Case Study in Trial by Local Media
- 8. Crime as Rhetoric: The Trial of the Catonsville Nine9. Mediating the Laws: Popular Trials and the Mass Media; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
