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Forthcoming Popular Culture & Law Books

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  1. Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television

    Detecting Feeling

    By Deidre Pribram

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Popular film and television are ideally suited in understanding how emotions create culturally shared meanings. Yet very little has been done in this area. Emotion, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television explores textual representations of emotions from a cultural perspective, rather than in...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Street Art, Public City

    Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination

    By Alison Young

    Crime and the Urban Imagination investigates the practices of street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Street art has become a highly significant part of the ways in which people shape their urban surroundings. Cities are engaged in a continual...

    To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Mediating Human Rights

    Culture, Media and the Human Rights Act

    By Lieve Gies

    Mediating Human Rights addresses how the relationship between security and civil liberties has been shaped by the media. Human rights have never been as ubiquitous as in the aftermath of the events of 9/11, when the security agenda rose to prominence and created significant tensions between...

    To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Law and the Passions

    A Discrete History

    By Julia Shaw

    Although the connection of law, passion and emotion has become an established focus in legal scholarship, the extent to which emotion has always been, and continues to be, a significant influence in informing legal reasoning, decision-making, decision-avoidance and legal judgment – rather than an...

    To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge

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