| Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens Contributor(s): Kenyon, Andrew T. (Editor), Rush, Peter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0762311517 ISBN-13: 9780762311514 Publisher: Jai Press Inc. OUR PRICE: $152.94 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: This special volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society - The Aesthetics of Law and Culture: texts, images, screens - examines practices of representation and their relation to juridical and cultural formations. The chapters range across the media of speech and writing, word and image, legislation and judgment, literature, cinema and photography. The contributions draw on disciplines including jurisprudence, literary criticism, philosophy, cinema studies, art and visual studies, cartography, historiography and medicine. They are ordered according to four prominent themes in contemporary, theoretically informed critical scholarship: Crime Scenes: Sexuality and Representation; Sites Unsaid: Testimony, Image, Genre; (Post)Colonial Appropriations; and Screen Culture: Sovereignty, Cinema and Law. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 340.11 |
| Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society |
| Physical Information: 1.15" H x 6.58" W x 8.94" (1.40 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This special volume of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society - The Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens - examines practices of representation and their relation to juridical and cultural formations. The chapters range across the media of speech and writing, word and image, legislation and judgment, literature, cinema and photography. The contributions draw on disciplines including jurisprudence, literary criticism, philosophy, cinema studies, art and visual studies, cartography, historiography and medicine. They are ordered according to four prominent themes in contemporary, theoretically informed critical scholarship: Crime Scenes: Sexuality and Representation; Sites Unsaid: Testimony, Image, Genre; (Post) Colonial Appropriations; and Screen Culture: Sovereignty, Cinema and Law. |