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Lädt ... The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law (Law, Justice and Power)von Susan Burgess
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This short but padded book is a bit of a mess. Purporting to read different constitutional theorists through the lens of popular culture (as authors of romance, comedy, and tragedy respectively), compare Bush v. Gore to a coming out story where the Justices admit that they’re really (gasp) political, and read Lawrence v. Texas through the lens of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the book neither convinced me as constitutional analysis nor taught me anything interesting with the comparisons, despite their surface appeal. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Applying innovative interpretive strategies drawn from cultural studies, this book considers the perennial question of law and politics: what role do the founding fathers play in legitimizing contemporary judicial review? Susan Burgess uses narrative analysis, popular culture, parody, and queer theory to better understand and to reconstitute the traditional relationship between fatherhood and judicial review. Unlike traditional, top-down public law analyses that focus on elite decision making by courts, legislatures, or executives, this volume explores the representation of law and legitimacy in various sites of popular culture. To this end, soap operas, romance novels, tabloid newspapers, reality television, and coming out narratives provide alternative ways to understand the relationship between paternal power and law from the bottom up. In this manner, constitutional discourse can begin to be transformed from a dreary parsing of scholarly and juristic argot into a vibrant discussion with points of access and understanding for all. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)347.73Social sciences Law Courts And Procedure North America United StatesKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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