Envisioning Legality (eBook, PDF)

Law, Culture and Representation
Redaktion: Peters, Timothy; Crawley, Karen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation is a collection of some of the world's leading cultural legal scholars addressing issues of law, representation and the image. The book undertakes specific political and critical engagements with timely issues

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317301608
• Artikelnr.: 50532412

Autorenporträt

Timothy D. Peters is a Senior Lecturer at USC Law School, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. Karen Crawley is a Lecturer at Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I
Spectacles of Law and Justice
2 I, Archive: Envisioning and Programming Digital Legality from SyFy's
Caprica
Kieran Tranter
3 Don't Blink: Monstrous Justice and the Weeping Angels of Doctor WhoPenny
Crofts
4 'Seeing' Justice Done: Envisioning Legality in Christopher Nolan's The
Dark Knight Trilogy
Timothy D Peters
5 Machiavellian Fantasy and the Game of Laws: Rex, Sex and Lex in George
R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
William P MacNeil
PART II
Juridical Spectators
6 Ambivalence and the Spectatorship of Violence: Viewing Inglourious
Basterds Alison Young
7 Trench, Trail, Screen: Scenes from the scopic regime of sovereignty
Desmond Manderson
8 The Confessor: Oprah Winfrey, James Frey, and the Spectacular Logic of
Contemporary Confession
Karen Crawley and Desmond Manderson
PART III
Scenes of Legality
9 Legal Unconsciousness: Tragedy and Melodrama in the Wake of Terror
Bonnie Honig
10 Mephistopheles in Hamsterdam: Carnival and the State of Exception in
HBO's The Wire Edwin Bikundo
11 Intercultural Cinema and the (Re)Envisioning of Law: Exploring Life,
Death and Law in Atanarjuat and Before Tomorrow Rebecca Johnson