| The Founding Fathers, Pop Culture, and Constitutional Law: Who's Your Daddy? Contributor(s): Burgess, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0754678415 ISBN-13: 9780754678410 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $71.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Civil Procedure - Law | Constitutional - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 347.731 |
| Series: Law, Justice and Power |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.50 lbs) 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |