Law and Justice as Seen on TV

Law and Justice as Seen on TV

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-309

  Rapping, Elayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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7. Paul Thayer, The Watchful Eye: American Justice in the Age of the TelevisedTrial (Westport, CT: 1994), 67.
8. Earle Marsh and Jason Brooks, The Complete Directory to Prime TimeNetwork and Cable TV Shows (New York, 2000).
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10. For a thorough archival history of the cast andcharacters, see the series Website, www.lawandorder.com.
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19. See Jean-Marie Guehenno, The End of the Nation-State (Minneapolis, 1995), for an interesting overview of decline of the nation-state, its causes, andimplications.
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27. Herman Gray has thoroughly analyzed the way in which race and criminalityhave been constructed and deployed in mass media. The fullest treatmentis in Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness (Minneapolis, 1995).
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