Democratic Acts: Theatre of Public Trials

Winner, Lucy

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“…Second, the public are the targeted recipients of lessons on morality, law and order. The ceremonial ritual of the legal proceedings, maintained by Winner [38], involves the public participation and provides them a chance to reflect upon the ethical issues. She argues that trials provide a stage where conflicting viewpoints can be articulated and argued, finally leading to a "consensus narrative" that "attempts to unify the philosophical, spiritual, political, or moral values of the community" [38, p. 154].…”

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Staging Justice: Courtroom Semiotics and the Judicial Ideology in China

2015

Int J Semiot Law

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Staging Justice: Courtroom Semiotics and the Judicial Ideology in China

2015

Int J Semiot Law

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“…"Even when our experience in daily life falls short of democracy-the value of continuing to perform the rituals of democracy, act out its dramas on the stage, in the courtroom, and in the streets, in order to maintain and expand what democracy we have" (Winner, 2005, p. 149). Like dramaturgists (e.g., Winner, 2005) who acknowledge that the structure of a courtroom trial is much like a play (i.e., there are prescribed ways to enter and exit), Beer recognizes that the courtroom is a place for "performing" democracy.…”

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Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice for All Families

2011

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Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice for All Families offers family scholars and practitioners an opportunity to focus on the social, economic, and environmental issues facing families disadvantaged by poverty, segregation, crime, and joblessness. Based on the 2007 Groves Conference in Detroit, this volume is a distinctive study in contrasts and a microcosm for understanding issues of justice at the intersection of social categories such as race, gender, sexuality, and class.

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REVIEWING THE ROSENBERGS: DONALD FREED'SINQUESTAND ITS JURORS

Guterman¹

2007

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It is useful to begin with some immutable facts: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died on the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison on Friday, 19 June 1953, and were pronounced dead at 8∶06 and 8∶17 p.m., respectively. Nearly seventeen years later, on 23 April 1970, Donald Freed's Inquest opened at the Music Box Theatre in New York City. The play about the Rosenberg case ran for eight previews and twenty-eight performances, closing just twenty-three days after its premiere. In its first minutes, Inquest alerted the audience that “every word you will hear or see on this stage is a documented quotation or reconstruction from events.” Freed asserts that he used only primary sources, no matter how “bizarre or poisoned” the words might have seemed, to construct his script. He employed these sources in three distinct ways and, accordingly, called for a divided stage to present the play. In Stage A, the players enacted portions of the 1951–3 court transcripts, whereas Stage B served as a plastic space, where flashback scenes of the characters' out-of-trial lives, pieced from letters, tapes, memos, and other available archival sources, interrupted the legal proceedings. Finally, relying on a large, partitioned screen situated upstage and on voice-over recordings, Freed assembled photographs, newspaper headlines, visual evidence submitted in the courtroom, and quotations from public figures to comment on the Rosenberg saga. The playwright thus toyed with time and place, offering the central story of the trial in a nonlinear manner. He bombarded the audience with projections and sounds to reinforce the reality on which the play was based and, at the same time, to evoke a nightmarish, multimedia world.

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Democratic Acts: Theatre of Public Trials

Cited by 5 publications

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Staging Justice: Courtroom Semiotics and the Judicial Ideology in China

Staging Justice: Courtroom Semiotics and the Judicial Ideology in China

Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice for All Families

REVIEWING THE ROSENBERGS: DONALD FREED'SINQUESTAND ITS JURORS

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