Introduction: legal performances and public cultures | |
Trials as Sites of Performance and Narrative | |
'The play's the thing': an unscientific reflection on courts under the rubric of theater | |
The lawfulness of the American trial | |
An analysis of closing arguments to a jury | |
Law frames: historical truth and narrative necessity in a criminal case | |
Speaking of death: narratives of violence in capital trials | |
Evidence and the Production of Truth | |
Just the facts, Ma'am: sexualized violence, evidentiary habits and the revision of truth | |
Theaters of proof; visual evidence and the law in Call Northside 777 | |
Film as witness: screening Nazi Concentration Camps before the Nuremberg Tribunal | |
A reporter at large: doubt | |
Dialogics of Law and Culture | |
Story and transcription in the trial of John Brown | |
Rats, pigs, and statues on trial: the creation of cultural narratives in the prosecution of animals and inanimate objects | |
Constructing a common language: the function of Nuremberg in the problematization of postapartheid justice | |
'The Trial': a parody of law amid the mockery of men in post-colonial Papua New Guinea | |
Forms of judicial blindness, or the evidence of what cannot be seen: traumatic narratives and legal repetitions in the O.J. Simpson case and in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer Sonata | |
Index | |
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