An aesthetics of law and culture text, images, screens /

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 ima...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Law and Literature Association of Australia. International Conference
Other Authors: Kenyon, Andrew T., Rush, Peter, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier JAI, 2004.
Series:Studies in law, politics and society ; v. 34.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Alter egos : the mise-en-scène of law and aesthetics / Peter D. Rush and Andrew T. Kenyon. Crime scenes : sexuality and representation. Exhibiting the hymen : the blank page between law and literature / Nina Philadelphoff-Puren
  • "It forced me to open more than I could bear" : H.A.D., paedophilia, and the discursive limits of the male heterosexual body / Ben Golder
  • Arresting images/fugitive testimony : the resistant photography of Evergon / Derek Dalton. Sites unsaid : testimony, image, genre. The trial : elements of a legal assemblage of desire / Edward Mussawir
  • Character evidence and the literature of the Theophrastan character : a phenomenology of testimony / Michael FitzGerald
  • Injury as melodrama / Samantha Hardy
  • Graven images : "The Hart Island Project" / Rebecca Scott Bray. (Post)colonial appropriations. Awash in a tide of history : "responsibility" for cultural violence--A comparative analysis of Nulyrimma and Voss / Lee Godden
  • Cartography, property and the aesthetics of place : mapping native title in Australia / Alexander Reilly
  • gods and humans / Nasser Hussain. Screen culture : sovereignty, cinema and law. Unworking death in "Unforgiven" : law, ethos, violence / Thomas L. Dumm
  • Sovereign contempt / Peter J. Hutchings
  • One Recht to rule them all! Law's empire in the age of empire / William MacNeil.