An Aesthetics of Law and Culture, Volume 34: Texts, images, screens (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society) (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society)

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. 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 Examining practices of representation and their relation to juridical and cultural formations, this volume features contributions that are based on four themes in contemporary, theoretically informed critical scholarship. The chapters range across the media of speech and writing, word and image, legislation and judgment, literature, and cinema. Special Volume Editors, Andrew T. Kenyon, Peter D. Rush. Special Volume--cover. Issued As V. 34 Of Studies In Law, Politics, And Society. Almost All The Chapters In This Book Emerged From The 11th International Conference Of The Law And Literature Association Of Australia--pref. Includes Bibliographical References.