Law and Film
Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion
- 226 pages
- English
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Law and Film
Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion
About this book
This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of both fields.
The contributors to this book consider the need to turn to film and what this means for how we come to understand law and its absences. The chapters explore a variety of narratives, aesthetics, cinematic epistemologies and legal phenomena; from assessing law in social debates to film as legal critique, from notions of justice to contemplations on evil, and from masculine vigilantism to radical feminism. Taken together, they constitute an inspiring body of work that embodies an urgency for diverse and subversive ways to challenge law's formalism and authority; and to think about and respond variously to law's impotence, its disappointment, or its boredom.
This book will appeal to legal scholars and students in law and the humanities, especially those with interests in aesthetics, law and literature, law and culture, law and society, and critical legal theory.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- 1 Eating Popcorn Like a Lawyer: On Fictions, the Senses, and Belonging
- 2 Writing About Evil
- 3 Reading a Law Film in Cinematic Context as a Commentary on the Decline of Liberal Democracy and the Rule of Law: Emin Alper’s Burning Days (2022) Read Against John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- 4 Violence as Law: Reading Dirty Harry, Unforgiven, and Gran Torino as Comments on Vigilantism
- 5 The Impossible Truth in Law and Films: The Female Gaze of Saint Omer and Anatomy of a Fall
- 6 Teaching Law and Feminism Through Cinema: A Proposal
- 7 Holy Motors: Law and Technology
- 8 Kafka in the Balkans: Before the Law, Nihilism, and Crisis in Cristi Puiu’s Aurora
- 9 Revitalising the Law: An Existentialist Take on Law and Film
- 10 Lost Horizons, or How to Lose More Slowly
- 11 The Legal Spectacle
- Index