- Titel
- Of Legal Roulette and Eccentric Clients - Contemporary TV Legal Drama as (Post-)Postmodern Public Sphere
- Zitierfähige Url:
- https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-164051
- Quellenangabe
- Participating audiences, imagined public spheres / ed. by Sebastian M. Herrmann ..., Leipziger Universitätsverl., 2012, S. 64-90
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 2012
- Abstract (EN)
- This article explores the specific capacity of TV courtroom drama to dramatize civic issues and to seduce viewers to an active engagement with such issues. I argue that television series of this genre eyploit the apparent theatricality of their subject matter-trials-to invite their audiences to the deliberation of social or political issues, issues that they negotiate in their courtroom plots. contemporary courtroom dramas amend this issue orientation with a self-reflexive dimension in wich they encourage viewers to also reflect on how the dramatic construction of 'issues' shapes their civic debate. I unfold this argument through a reading of episodes from two very different legal dramas, Boston Legal (2004-2008) and The Good Wife (2009-).
- Freie Schlagwörter (EN)
- Literatur, Fernsehserie, Amerika, Boston Legal, the Good Wife
- literature, soap, Amerika, USA, Boston Legal, The Good Wife
- Klassifikation (DDC)
- 791
- Klassifikation (RVK)
- AP 36320
- Verlag
- Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig
- Sonstige beteiligte Institution
- Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden
- URN Qucosa
- urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-164051
- Veröffentlichungsdatum Qucosa
- 14.04.2015
- Dokumenttyp
- Buchbeitrag
- Sprache des Dokumentes
- Englisch
- Lizenz / Rechtehinweis
