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Cultural Legal Studies : Law's Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law.

"What can popular cultures offer law, as a basis for critical practice? This introduction to the 'cultural legal studies' movement takes up this question as it presents a new encounter with the 'cultural turn' in law and legal theory. Moving beyond the 'law ands' (...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sharp, Cassandra
Otros Autores: Leiboff, Marett
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Preface
  • List of contributors
  • PART I Cultural legal studies
  • the urgency of method and story
  • 1 Cultural legal studies and law's popular cultures
  • 2 Cultural legal studies as law's extraversion
  • 3 Finding stories of justice in the art of conversation: ethnography in cultural legal studies
  • PART II Cultural legal studies as legal storytelling
  • 4 Interventions into the feeling of popular justice: Australia's Stolen Generations, the problem of sentimentality, and re-encountering the testimonial form.
  • 5 Border crossings: the transnational career of the television crime drama
  • 6 Theatre and the law in the twenty-first century
  • PART III Law's technologies and cultural legal studies
  • 7 Picturing justice in a fraught legal arena: fetuses, phantoms and mandatory ultrasounds
  • 8 Peeping: open justice and law's voyeurs
  • 9 The critical force of irony: reframing photographs in cultural legal studies
  • 10 Bodies, cinema, sovereignty: using visual culture methodologies to think about other ways that law might work
  • PART IV Cultural legal studies as jurisprudence.
  • 11 Popular culture's lex vampirica: the law of the undead in True Blood, the Twilight saga and The Passage
  • 12 Reading the law made strange: cultural legal studies, theology and speculative fiction
  • 13 Republicanism meets (dystopian) faërie: Harry Potter and the institutional disaster
  • Index.