Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael asimow”
Skip side bar filters

  • Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture

    A Global Perspective

    by Peter Robson, Ferdinando Spina, Pedro Fortes, Júlia Garraio, Rebecca Johnson, Nickos Myrtou, Joanna Osiejewicz, Lili Pâquet, Stamatis Poulakidakos0, Franziska Stürmer1, Sebastian Viqueira2, Michael Asimow3 ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    This unique collection explores the complex issue of vigilantism, how it is represented in popular culture, and what is its impact on behavior and the implications for the rule of law. The book is a transnational investigation across a range of eleven different jurisdictions, including accounts of the Anglophone world (Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States), European experiences ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Real to Reel

    Truth and Trickery in Courtroom Movies

    by Michael Asimow, Paul Bergman ...
    Real trials and courtroom movies are made for each other. Lawyers are storytellers, courtrooms are theaters, and the trial process provides drama, surprise, suspense or comedy.This book will serve as a video guide to help you identify the courtroom movies you'd like to see. It ranks each of the films on a one- to four- gavel system, with four gavels for the classics. And it answers the questions ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Law and Popular Culture

    A Course Book (2nd Edition)

    by Michael Asimow, Shannon Mader ...
    Both law and popular culture pervade our lives. Popular culture constructs our perceptions of law and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Now in its second edition, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book explores the interface between two subjects of enormous importance to everyone – law and popular culture.Each chapter takes a particular legally themed film or television show ... Read more

    $34.09 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Ten-Cent Plague

    The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

    by David Hajdu ...
    This cultural history is a "well-reported account of the men and women who created the comic book and the backlash of the 1950s that nearly destroyed it" ( Entertainment Weekly ).In the years between World War II and the emergence of television as a mass medium, American popular culture as we know it was first created—in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books. No sooner had this new ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Lawyers, Liars and the Art of Storytelling

    by Jonathan Shapiro ...
    Storytelling - what it is, why it matters, how to do it - is not a metaphor for legal advocacy. It is legal advocacy itself, and it is not limited to jury trials or court appearances: It relates to every aspect of a lawyer’s work.The practice of law is the business of persuasion, and storytelling is the most effective means of persuading. A credible lawyer capable of telling a well-reasoned story ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Alan Alda: The 1983 Biography

    by Raymond Strait ...
    **This biography was originally published in 1983 and has not been updated. Any events after 1983 are not included.**Best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce on the award-winning TV series M*A*S*H, Alan Alda has made his way into Hollywood’s spotlight while keeping remarkably free of its whirlwind parties and endless gossip. He remains a private man—an actor whose personal life and politics are ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Hollywood's Last Golden Age

    Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America

    by Jonathan Kirshner ...
    Kirshner's commentary on these and other films is stimulating...Kirshner's book provides intriguing insights for anyone interested in the relation between film and wider culture.―The Journal of American CultureBetween 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Martin Scorsese's America

    by Ellis Cashmore ...
    Series series America Through the Lens
    For over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved.Scorsese has often described his films as sociology and he has a point: his storytelling condenses complex information into comprehensible ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Little Shoes

    The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret

    by Pamela Everett ...
    In the summer of 1937, with the Depression deep and World War II looming, a California triple murder stunned an already grim nation. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged, and his sensational trial captivated audiences from coast to coast. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story.But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Run of His Life

    The People v. O. J. Simpson

    by Jeffrey Toobin ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson on FX, starring Cuba Gooding, Jr., John Travolta, David Schwimmer, and Connie BrittonThe definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Law & Disorder:

    Inside the Dark Heart of Murder

    by John Douglas, Mark Olshaker ...
    The legendary FBI criminal profiler and inspiration for the hit Netflix show Mindhunter offers a personal look into the workings of the justice system.“At the top of his form.” —James PattersonFor the first time since his retirement, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Killer Across the Table and The Killer’s Shadow teams up with award-winning author Mark Olshaker to delve into his ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

  • Life: The Movie

    How Entertainment Conquered Reality

    by Neal Gabler ...
    The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD