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Fundamentele verhalen : over recht, literatuur en film
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ISBN: 9789089749710 9089749713 Year: 2014 Publisher: Den Haag Boom Juridische uitgevers

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Sensing justice through contemporary Spanish cinema : aesthetics, politics, law
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ISBN: 1474495699 1474442064 Year: 2021 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This volume examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice in the context of 21st century Spain.


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Rene Girard, Law, Literature, and Cinema : The Legal Drama of the Scapegoat
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ISBN: 9819711568 Year: 2024 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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Ways of Remembering.
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ISBN: 9781009072182 1009072188 1009281925 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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Ways of Remembering tells a story about the relationship between secular law and religious violence by studying the memorialisation of the 2002 Gujarat pogrom-postcolonial India's most litigated and mediatized event of anti-Muslim mass violence. By reading judgments and films on the pogrom through a novel interpretive framework, the book argues that the shared narrative of law and cinema engenders ways of remembering the pogrom in which the rationality of secular law offers a resolution to the irrationality of religious violence. In the public's collective memory, the force of this rationality simultaneously condemns and normalises violence against Muslims while exonerating secular law from its role in enabling the pogrom, thus keeping the violent (legal) order against India's Muslim citizens intact. The book contends that in foregrounding law's aesthetic dimensions we see the discursive ways in which secular law organizes violence and presents itself as the panacea for that very violence.


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Law and justice in literature, film and theater : Nordic perspectives
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ISBN: 3110294524 3110294427 1299722237 9783110294521 9781299722231 9783110294422 3110294532 9783110294538 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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This volume is a Nordic contribution to research on law and humanities. It treats the legal culture of the Nordic countries through intensive analyses of canonical Nordic artworks. Law and justice have always been important issues in Nordic literature, film and theater from the Icelandic sagas through Ludvig Holberg and Henrik Ibsen to Lars Noréns theatre and Lars von Trier's Dogme films of today. This book strives to answer two fundamental questions: Is there a special Nordic justice? And what does the legal and literary/aesthetic culture of the North mean for the concept of law and justice and for the understanding of the interdisciplinary exchange of law and humanities? The concept of law and literature as a research area was originally developed in countries of common law. This book investigates law and humanities from a different legal tradition, and contributes thus both to the discussion of the general and the comparative studies of law and humanities.


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A certain justice : Toward an ecology of the Chinese legal imagination
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ISBN: 9780226825243 9780226825250 Year: 2023 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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"China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window-dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and tyranny. The rule of law seems an elusive ideal in the face of entrenched obstacles baked, as it were, into China's cultural and political DNA. In this highly original contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities, Haiyan Lee contends that this image arises from an ahistorical understanding of China's political-legal tradition, particularly the failure to distinguish what she calls high justice and low justice. Lee argues that the liberal (and, so to speak, horizontal) conception of justice as fairness is quite different from the Chinese understanding of law. In the Chinese legal imagination, she shows, justice is a vertical concept, with low justice between individuals firmly subordinated to the high justice of the state. China's political-legal culture mistrusts law's ability to deliver justice and privileges moral over procedural justice. Lee shows that Chinese literature and film invariably dramatize the relationship between law and morality in ways that emphasize law's concession to moral sentiments and the triumph of moral justice through the discretion of a sagacious judge or the defiance of a vigilante hero. As China rises to global superpower status, its conception of justice can no longer be treated as a pale, floundering, and negligible sideshow to the legal drama of defending liberty and upholding human rights in the West. Lee's book helps us recognize the fight for justice outside the familiar arenas of liberal democracy and in terms other than those furnished by the rule of law"--


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Film and constitutional controversy : visualizing Hong Kong identity in the age of "one country, two systems".
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ISBN: 1108852742 1108863027 1108852440 110849577X Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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In modern-day Hong Kong, major constitutional controversies have caused people to demonstrate on the streets, immigrate to other countries, occupy major thoroughfares, and even engage in violence. These controversies have such great resonance because they put pressure on a cultural identity made possible by, and inseparable from, the 'One Country, Two Systems' framework. Hong Kong is also a city synonymous with film, ranging from commercial gangster movies to the art cinema of Wong Kar-wai. This book argues that while the importance of constitutional controversies for the process of self-formation may not be readily discernible in court judgments and legislative enactments, it is registered in the diverse modes of expression found in Hong Kong cinema. It contends that film gives form to the ways in which Hong Kong identity is articulated, placed under stress, bolstered, and transformed in light of disputes about the nature and meaning of the city's constitutional documents.

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