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TY - JOUR
T1 - From Judge Judy to Judge Rinder and Judge Geordie
T2 - Humour, emotion and 'televisual legal consciousness'
AU - Wood, Helen
N1 - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-law-in-context/article/from-judge-judy-to-judge-rinder-and-judge-geordie-humour-emotion-and-televisual-legal-consciousness/49733218DA3D23C21D66176A51C79C48 The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, International Journal of Law in Context, 14 (Special Issue 4), pp 581-595 2018, © 2018 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - This paper attempts to counter legal studies' common reading of court TV shows by starting with an understanding of them as television, rather comparing them to 'real courts'. It analyses two recent examples of British court TV shows - Judge Rinder (ITV, 2014-) and Judge Geordie (MTV, 2015) - to draw out how the text's form establishes particular kinds of 'televisual legal consciousness'. Judge Rinder's daytime address and his camped authority allow a frame in which humour can disarm conflict and reveal wider political injustice. Judge Geordie's irreverent upturning of the judged into judge draws upon the registers of youth reality television to privilege affect and emotion. In staging some of the tensions between law's masculine rationality and popular culture's feminine emotionality, these shows enact their interdependence. Such an analysis that includes attention to form, address and genre allows us a deeper exploration of the relationship between television, law and the everyday.
AB - This paper attempts to counter legal studies' common reading of court TV shows by starting with an understanding of them as television, rather comparing them to 'real courts'. It analyses two recent examples of British court TV shows - Judge Rinder (ITV, 2014-) and Judge Geordie (MTV, 2015) - to draw out how the text's form establishes particular kinds of 'televisual legal consciousness'. Judge Rinder's daytime address and his camped authority allow a frame in which humour can disarm conflict and reveal wider political injustice. Judge Geordie's irreverent upturning of the judged into judge draws upon the registers of youth reality television to privilege affect and emotion. In staging some of the tensions between law's masculine rationality and popular culture's feminine emotionality, these shows enact their interdependence. Such an analysis that includes attention to form, address and genre allows us a deeper exploration of the relationship between television, law and the everyday.
KW - affect
KW - emotion
KW - humour
KW - legal consciousness
KW - television form
KW - TV judges
U2 - 10.1017/S1744552318000253
DO - 10.1017/S1744552318000253
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85057088815
VL - 14
SP - 581
EP - 595
JO - International Journal of Law in Context
JF - International Journal of Law in Context
SN - 1744-5523
IS - Special Issue 4
ER -