The American Legal System in the US Popular Culture

Popular culture, like law, is an integral component of society. Cultural texts, legal ones, consciously or unconsciously, deliberately inadvertently, proclaim the rules and customs that define social ecosystem shape dominant ideology. It would not be a serious exaggeration to claim in their degree influence norm-creation, cultural texts are quite comparable acts laws, disseminating enshrining society certain ideas, attitudes values. The U.S. judicial system one most frequently represented areas various formats popular culture - movies, bestsellers, TV shows, as well radio, board interactive games, etc. overlap on several levels, primarily substantive level stories revolving around conflict, but also narrative deploys tools, generates meanings poses problems argumentation, evidence, credibility, susceptibility verification audience. This article examines just some diverse ways which cultures intersect. author employs traditional method analysis explore ideological semantic content, accuracy credibility depiction, causal connections between fictional real worlds, mutual influences, impact public perception law justice, paying particular attention depictions judiciary its representatives judges, lawyers, prosecutors, procedures involving them. concludes although images far from always realistic authentic, they, through dramatization, reduction, accessibility visualization, have important functions, such educational, informative, normative communicative. Not only conveying, deciphering, interpreting commenting concepts, provisions cases practice, criticizing, shaping changing whole.