Abstract
While 12 Angry Men remains an important cinematic and political work, the film provides an atypical pop cultural portrayal of the jury. Most portrayals are limited and even degrading, a pattern suggesting both a failure to appreciate the jury as an embodiment of popular sovereignty and our society's apolitical self-disenfranchisement.
Recommended Citation
David R. Papke,
12 Angry Men Is Not an Archetype: Reflections on the Jury in Contemporary Popular Culture,
82
Chi.-Kent L. Rev.
735
(2007).
Available at:
https://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/vol82/iss2/14
