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.
Author(s): Andrew T Kenyon, Peter D Rush
Edition: 1
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 320
AN AESTHETICS OF LAW AND
CULTURE: TEXTS, IMAGES, SCREENS......Page 1
1. ALTER EGOS: THE MISE-EN-SCENE OF LAW AND AESTHETICS......Page 15
"Streams of Justice Clear and Pure"......Page 17
Of Bullies and Bulldozers......Page 20
The Hand that Signs......Page 25
AN AESTHETICS OF LAW AND CULTURE......Page 27
Crime Scenes: Sexuality and Representation......Page 28
Sites Unsaid: Testimony, Image, Genre......Page 30
(Post)Colonial Appropriations......Page 33
Screen Culture: Sovereignty, Cinema and Law......Page 36
REFERENCES......Page 42
LAW, LITERATURE, STRATEGY......Page 47
INTERPRETING THE HYMEN......Page 51
FOLDS OF MEANING......Page 52
HYMEN-TEXTS......Page 54
THE BLANK PAGE......Page 60
REFERENCES......Page 65
INTRODUCTION......Page 67
DEFINITIONS, HISTORY, MACABRE METHODOLOGY......Page 68
THE LOGIC OF THE BOUNDED BODY......Page 71
INTEGRATING CHILD SEX ABUSE INTO THE H.A.D. BODY MATRIX......Page 76
CONTINGENT BODIES: TOWARDS A POETICS OF LAW REFORM......Page 81
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 84
REFERENCES......Page 85
CASES......Page 86
4. ARRESTING IMAGES/FUGITIVE TESTIMONY: THE RESISTANT PHOTOGRAPHY OF EVERGON......Page 87
THE EVERYDAY AND TESTIMONY......Page 88
PHOTOGRAPHY, LAW AND CRIMINALITY......Page 90
EVERGON: A PHOTOGRAPHIC FLANEUR......Page 91
LANDSCAPES OF PREDILECTION......Page 93
PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TRACE OF DESIRE: GRAFFITI......Page 95
PHOTOGRAPHY AS A TRACE OF DESIRE: EVIDENCE......Page 100
MANSCAPES: SPECTRES, DISORDER, WOUNDS......Page 105
COHERING BODIES OF LAW/LORE......Page 109
THE FUGITIVE IN THE FRAME: A FINAL PHOTOGRAPHIC OFFERING......Page 112
CRUISING, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE CONTINUUM OF GAY RESISTANCE......Page 114
REFERNCES......Page 120
MACHINES OF LAW......Page 125
IMAGE OF LAW: DETERRITORIALISATION......Page 129
Crime......Page 131
Jurisdiction......Page 133
Advocacy......Page 135
KAFKA AND CARROLL: BEFORE THE LAW......Page 138
REFERENCES......Page 144
INTRODUCTION - ETHICS, TRUTH, OTHERS......Page 147
MATHEMATICS AND VISION......Page 149
CREDIT AND THE VERBAL......Page 153
CHARACTER AND THE LITERAL......Page 156
TRUTH AND IRONY......Page 161
REFERENCES......Page 166
INTRODUCTION......Page 169
WHAT IS MELODRAMA?......Page 171
HOW IS THE LEGAL INJURY NARRATIVE MELODRAMATIC?......Page 173
The Basic Plot......Page 174
Assignments of Blame......Page 175
Stock Characters and Roles......Page 177
Recognising Virtue......Page 181
Gender and Ethnicity......Page 183
Virtue in Pain......Page 186
MELODRAMA AND MORALITY......Page 187
REFERENCES......Page 189
INTRODUCTION: THE TIDE OF HISTORY......Page 217
The Legends of Settlement History......Page 218
Nulyrimma, Voss and the Desert Heart of the Nation......Page 219
Legends of History, Nation and Law......Page 220
The Insistence of One Nation and the Context for the Nulyrimma and Buzzacott Cases......Page 221
Criminal Responsibility and Cultural Genocide: Genocide and Intent in Nulyrimma......Page 223
Defining a Sense of Responsibility for History......Page 225
Voss, the Limits of a Common Humanity and a Limited Humanity......Page 226
The Violence that Sits at the Heart of Australia......Page 228
CONCLUSION......Page 229
REFERENCES......Page 233
INTRODUCTION......Page 235
PROPERTY, MAPS AND A SENSE OF PLACE......Page 237
MAPPING AND COLONIALISM......Page 240
The Land Tenure Map......Page 243
The Map of Aboriginal Australia......Page 245
REFERENCES......Page 251
gods and humans......Page 255
LAW'S SHADOW......Page 271
WHERE IS THE WEST OF US?......Page 274
"DESERVE'S GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT"......Page 275
REFERENCES......Page 281
13. SOVEREIGN CONTEMPT......Page 283
THE SIEGE......Page 286
BEHIND ENEMY LINES......Page 287
CODA......Page 289
REFERENCES......Page 290
FORGING LEGAL FICTION AND FACTION: THE WEREGILD OF INTERTEXTUAL JURISPRUDENCE......Page 293
DARK LORD OR LAW LORD? THE RING AS RECHT IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS......Page 294
THE EVIL EMPIRE OF LAW'S EMPIRE: ISILDUR'S BANE AS GRUNDNORM......Page 297
THE TWO TOWERS AS TWIN TOWERS: THE SHADOW OF GLOBALISATION......Page 300
GONDOR AS SCHMITTIAN SUPERPOWER: POLICING MIDDLE EARTH'S CRISIS......Page 304
THE RETURN OF THE RING: RIGHTS, REVOLUTION AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF "THE MULTITUDE"......Page 308
REFERENCES......Page 315
