Summer Stranger Danger @lenalwilson @nytimes
Lena Wilson examines home invasion movies in I Know Where You Lived Last Summer in this article for The New York Times. She says in part, The writer-director Jordan Peele’s latest nightmare is part...
Sharon Bala Wins 2019 Harper Lee Prize For Legal Fiction @ABAJournal @RandomHouse
Sharon Bala has won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction for her first Novel The Boat People (Random House/Anchor, 2018). Before her death, Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set...
Lawyering Oops In Popular Culture
From the Writing Excuses podcast, a discussion of what writers get wrong when they write about legal procedures. Lou Perry, an attorney and writer, is the guest. As a followup, Molly Ringle published this...
ICYMI: From the Journal of Legal Education: A Symposium on Visual Images and Popular Culture in Legal Education @TheAALS
ICYMI: Michael Asimow and Ticien Marie Sassoubre, both of the Stanford Law School, have published Introduction to the Symposium on Visual Images and Popular Culture in Legal Education, at 68 Journal of Legal Education...
“The Simpsons” and the Trump Presidency @TheSimpsons
DId The Simpsons predict Donald Trump’s rise to the Presidency? As it turns out, yes. In an episode called “Bart to the Future,” a “vision of the future” episode first aired March 19, 2000, the show...
Women Readers and True Crime Writing @guardian
J. Oliver Conroy interviews journalist Rachel Monroe (Savage Appetites) about the popularity of true crime writing among women readers. Says Ms. Monroe in part, One common, overarching explanation is that true crime stories allow...
Call For Papers – Law Text Culture Vol 24 (2020)
Special Issue Volume 24 (2020) “The Acoustics of Justice: Law, Listening, Sound” Guest Editors: Mehera San Roque (University of New South Wales Law) Sara Ramshaw (University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Canada) James Parker...
Some Frankenstein and Copyright @dkluft
Another law and pop culture post from David Kluft at Foley & Hoag, this time on Frankenstein and Copyright. Great information about Mary Shelley’s sale of the copyright of the novel for only thirty...
Nicholas Barber on the Subversive Messages in “The Wizard of Oz” @BBC_Culture
For the BBC, Nicholas Barber discusses the meanings that we might miss in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz,” released in 1939. Those meanings include the dangers of following a popular but incompetent...
American Crime Story’s Next Season: The Monica Lewinsky Affair @JeffreyToobin @ACSFX @MonicaLewinsky
The popular FX series American Crime Story plans to turn its attention to former President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky next when its fall 2020 season premieres. Even more interesting: Ms. Lewinsky will produce...