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Sessions: Session 1 | Session 3 | Session 4
Session 2: The Social Significance
Organizers: Lisa Parks, Chair and Professor of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara; Jennifer Holt, Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Moderator: Jennifer Holt
This panel explored the social and cultural significance of Law & Order and the manner in which the series represents crime, punishment, the criminal justice system, and the law. Panelists focused upon such issues as how Law & Order has transformed television portrayals of the criminal justice system and how this has contributed to cultural understandings of criminality, New York City and the urban space, justice, morality, and/or the complexities of guilt and innocence in a flawed system.
Participants included:
- Benjamin Bratt, Actor, Law & Order
- Charlotte Brunsdon, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick, U.K.
- Arthur Forney, Co-Executive Producer, Law & Order branded series
- Pam Golum, President, Entertainment/West Coast, The Lippin Group
- Lisa Hajjar, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
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