Law, politics and family in 'The Americans'

This special issue offers an academic analysis of the television series The Americans as a reflection of current social and political trends across the United States. Uncovering the inseparability of the political and the personal through the lives of the central characters, authors consider how the...

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Other Authors Sarat, Austin (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023.
SeriesStudies in law, politics, and society (Emerald Group Publishing) ; 89.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781837539963
DOI10.1108/S1059-4337202389
Physical Description1 online resource (152 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Crimes of The Americans / Richard H. McAdams
  • Chapter 2. Practicing Americans: foodways, capitalism and marriage in The Americans / Anna-Maria Marshall
  • Chapter 3. The Americans blows the nuclear family's legal and political cover / Susan Burgess
  • Chapter 4. Til' death do us part: The Americans and the domestic politics of a queer family / Claire Rasmussen
  • Chapter 5. "I'm not done with them yet!": good mothering in The Americans and the new right / Mary J. Dudas General Article
  • Chapter 6. Fighting crime or needless time? disentangling the reciprocal effects of life without parole and violent crime using structural equation models / Jeremiah Coldsmith and Ross Kleinstuber.