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Cultural legal studies : law's popular cultures and the metamorphosis of law /

What can law's popular cultures do for law, as a constitutive and interrogative critical practice? This collection explores such a question through the lens of the 'cultural legal studies' movement, which proffers a new encounter with the 'cultural turn' in law and legal the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sharp, Cassandra (Editor ), Leiboff, Marett (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.
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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 drama6 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 Passage12 Reading the law made strange: cultural legal studies, theology and speculative fiction; 13 Republicanism meets (dystopian) faërie: Harry Potter and the institutional disaster; Index.