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Schein und Sein des Rechts in Film und Fernsehen

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Films and television series are important for an understanding of legal culture. They are one of the sources feeding knowledge and opinion on law. If a summary is drawn from the forms and content used by film and later television to portray law, it is that in the main, a classic liberal view on law is suggested. In a final analysis, they invite people to trust legal institutions. The conservative element is accompanied by a media logic that is driving at the audience accepting incremental change. The audience prefers a variation of the known patterns and the makers of law-related media products also often harbor an artitistic or political amibition. The example of international, especially US, productions has to be added to this.

Keywords

  • law in film, popular legal culture, law on television, lawyers in popular culture, courtroom drama, cop films, sociology of law, socio-legal studies
Translated title of the contributionSeeming and Being of Law in Film and Television
Original languageGerman
Title of host publicationRechtsästhetik in rechtsphilosophischer Absicht
EditorsEva Schünemann, Levno von Plato
Place of PublicationBaden-Baden
PublisherNomos Verlagsgesellschaft
ISBN (print)9783848767748
Publication statusPublished - 24 Sept 2020

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