Field Tripping
The Power of Inherit the Wind
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4551485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gad Guterman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 563-583 |
| Publication date | 2008-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.0.0104 |
| OpenAlex | W1964401019 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Focusing on the example of Inherit the Wind , this essay explores the porous border between the artistic and the legal fields, highlighting the power of a popular cultural product to rewrite history. The play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee fits Pierre Bourdieu's conception of the field of cultural production almost perfectly, explicating the play's trajectory and position, especially with regards to value and popularity. At the same time, precisely because of its popularity, Inherit the Wind also transcends the role that bourdieu assigns to works of art. like a ghost moving through walls, the piece has entered new spaces, one of which is the legal universe. the article investigates the phantasmal energy with which symbols migrate from one field to another, undermining their separateness and distinctness. in so doing, it questions schemas of power-like bourdieu's-in which so-called popular culture is relegated to a dominated position
Aesthetics · Art · Economics · Electrical engineering · Field (mathematics · Geometry · Physics · Political science · Popularity · Position (finance · Power (physics · Product (mathematics · Sociology · Tripping · Value (mathematics · Wind power · Computer Science · Engineering · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Mathematics · Theater, Performance, and Music History
Summer for the Gods
The New Christian right
Mine eyes have seen the glory
Not by politics alone
The Common Place of Law
The field of cultural production
Law as Process
The field of Cultural Production
Who Needs a Sociology of the Aesthetic? Freedom and Value in Pierre Bourdieu's Rules of Art
Six Days or Forever? Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
Popular Trials
Theatre of Fact
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |