Envisioning Legality - Law, Culture and Representation

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Who Penny 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 ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Karen Peters Crawley, William Crawley Macneil, William Peters Macneil, Timothy Crawley Peters
• Con la collaborazione di: Karen Crawley (Editore), Crawley Karen (Editore), William MacNeil (Editore), Timothy Peters (Editore), Timothy D. Peters (Editore), Timothy J. Peters (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.11.2017
• EAN: 9781138123762
• ISBN: 978-1-138-12376-2
• Pagine: 274
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri; Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, LAW / General, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Essays, LAW / Entertainment, Humanities, Social Law, Law & society, Jurisprudence and general issues, Entertainment and media law, Social law and Medical law