9780754672456

The founding fathers, pop culture, and constitutional law; who's your daddy?

Burgess, Susan.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2008

141 pages

$89.95

Hardcover

Law, justice, and power

KF4575

From

the staid and stately halls of academe, Burgess (political science and women's studies, Ohio U.) has lured the field of constitutional studies out into the morass of contemporary cultural studies, and from that perspective investigates the role that The Founding Fathers play in legitimizing contemporary judicial review. She explores the representation of law and legitimacy in such sites of popular culture as soap operas, romance novels, science fiction, reality television, and coming out narratives.

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