Law, Judges and Visual Culture

Law, Judges and Visual Culture analyses how pictures have been used to make, manage and circulate ideas about the judiciary through a variety of media from the 16th century to the present.

List of contents

1. Judging Pictures 2. Painted Portraits 3. Hanging Judicial Heads 4. Judges Through the Lens; Carte de Visite Portraits 5. The Judge, the Album and the Imagined Community 6. Cameras in Court 1: Judge John Deed 7. Small Screen Judges 1: Judge John Deed 8. Cameras in Court 2: UK Supreme Court 9. Small Screen Judges 2: Judgment Summary Videos 10. Strictly Judge Rinder: Judicial Visibility and the Industrial Production of Judicial Attention Capital 11. Afterword on Judicial Pictures

About the author

Leslie J Moran is Emeritus Professor in the School of Law, Birkbeck College University of London. He has an international reputation for his research and scholarship in various areas, including identity politics and law, hate crime, and law and visual culture. His publications include the monographs The (Homo)sexuality of Law (1996) and Sexuality and the Politics of Violence and Safety, with Beverly Skeggs, Paul Tyrer and Karen Corteen (2004), and a number of edited collections including Legal Queeries (1998) with Daniel Monk and Sarah Beresford; Law’s Moving Image (2004) with Emma Sandon, Elena Loizidou and Ian Christie; and Judicial Images (2018), published as a special edition of International Journal of Law in Context.

Summary

Law, Judges and Visual Culture analyses how pictures have been used to make, manage and circulate ideas about the judiciary through a variety of media from the 16th century to the present.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie J Moran
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780367621674
• ISBN: 978-0-367-62167-4
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Social Justice
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; FICTION / Science Fiction / General, LAW / General, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Jurisprudence, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Science Fiction / General, LAW / Legal Profession, LAW / Legal Writing, LAW / Judicial Power, Jurisprudence & general issues, Jurisprudence and general issues