O J Simpson : American hero, American tragedy / by 337621 Cerasini, Marc

Linda Williams, Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001) by Lauren Rabinovitz

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Dal media event al fatto storico e ritorno. Rodney King e O.J. Simpson nell’era di Black Lives Matter by Ilaria BIANO

“…By focusing on the relationship between history and media in relation, on the one hand, to the acceleration of history induced by media and, on the other, to the circular relationship between event, historical narration, media representation and context of reception, the article analyzes the events that revolved between 1992 and 1994 around Rodney King (the beating and the Los Angeles riots) and O. J. Simpson (the trial for multiple murders) in their cultural and media reception between 2016 and 2017. …”
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LANGUAGE POWER IN COURTROOM: THE USE OF PERSUASIVE FEATURES IN OPENING STATEMENT by Supardi Supardi

“…In addition, it presents the finding and discussion which reveal that language power in the courtroom can be reflected in some persuasive features such as metaphor, repetition, and rhetorical question as found in the text of Opening Statements by O.J. Simpson’s Defense Lawyer.…”
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“Shit happens”: Forrest Gump and historical consciousness “Shit happens”: Forrest Gump and historical consciousness by Vivian Sobchack

“…Wondering at its immense popularity, Premiere magazine noted: “Before it was all over, Forrest Gump would gross more than $300 million in the U.S. alone, commanding whatever portion of the national attention span that O.J. Simpson did not. Was the film a paean to serendipity, an attack on the counterculture, an unabashedly romantic
 tearjerker, a monument to morons, or what Quentin Tarantino called ‘a really funny movie filled with more irony than any Hollywood movie I’ve ever seen in my life’?”…”
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Public Engagement with the Criminal Justice System in the Age of Social Media by Michelle Katherine Larson Rose, Richard Logan Fox

“…<p>Exemplified by the landmark trial of O.J. Simpson, news media coverage of criminal cases in the United States is now regularly dominated by tabloid style coverage, complete with fixation on the victims and accused in criminal cases. …”
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Twitter en los juicios: Una revolución en la información periodística de tribunales by Ana Azurmendi

“…En ese sentido, a finales de la década del noventa, el juicio a O. J. Simpson (Estados Unidos) fue un antecedente para el debate en torno al acceso de cámaras de televisión en la corte. …”
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Review: Rainer Winter & Lothar Mikos (Eds.) (2001). Die Fabrikation des Populären. Der John-Fiske-Reader [The Production of the Popular: The John Fiske Reader] / Udo Göttlich, Loth... by Dagmar Hoffmann, Markus Wiemker

“…The author has analyzed the polysemy and popularity of different cultural phenomena such as music videos by Madonna, the television series "Hart to Hart," and the media events surrounding O.J. Simpson. This anthology selectively introduces the reader to the work of FISKE, and deals with Cultural Studies as methods of analyzing social and socio-cultural phenomena. …”
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Black Noise, White Ears: Resilience, Rap, and the Killing of Jordan Davis by William Cheng

“…(Several readers likened this case of colorism to the doctored image of O.J. Simpson on a 1994 cover of TIME magazine.)[8] Darker, blacker, meaner, stronger. …”
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