The performance of jury trials in usa audiovisual narratives. A case of study: phil
Abstract
This contribution approaches the media presentation of the American juridical system and focuses on the study matter of the jury trial and its media performance. As well as how this presentation has been adopted by our Latin culture, even if it is something genuinely American. Only a few times has this legal institution been played in the Spanish media narrations.
In this paper we analyse the differences between the institution of the trial jury in Spain and in the USA from the comparative law perspective. We try to discover if this difference is the reason why it is so common in the American media narrative, though in the Spanish narrative there is hardly any representation of this judicial institution.
We focus on the Tv movie Phil Spector, directed by David Mamet, in 2013, for the cable television channel HBO, as matter of study. In that film there is a very differential and momentous sketch in the showing of the jury trial that proves the sign of times.
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