Gary Watt

The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law

Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Employs a new idea of "making", covering artefaction, crafting, fiction, and fabrication, to make sense of controversies in law, politics, and media, from transgender identity to cancel culture. Brings new perspectives to a range of academic disciplines including law, politics, media, rhetoric, performance, theatre, gender studies and psychology"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781009336383
• ISBN-10: 100933638X
• Artikelnr.: 67405586

Autorenporträt

Gary Watt is Professor in the School of Law, University of Warwick. He is a National Teaching Fellow, having been named national 'Law Teacher of the Year' (2009). His rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company informed his book Shakespeare's Acts of Will (The Arden Shakespeare) and the present book arises from the award of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2019-2022). He is general editor of Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Law and founding co-editor of the journal Law and Humanities.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Making Sense: 1. The making sense
introduction; 2. Invention, creation, production; 3. Artefaction
making things; Part II. The Truth Factory: 4. The truth factory
crafting fact and law; 5. Making sex change: legal engendering of trans people; 6. Making faces, performing persons; Part III. The Acting President: 7. The acting president; 8. Political confection
making a meal of it; 9. State building; Part IV. Masses, Media, and Popular Judgment: 10. Co-production and populism; 11. Faking news; 12. Making mistakes
trial by twitter and cancel culture; Index.