Law and Film

Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion

Vittoria Becci, Alexia Katsiginis, Edward Van Daalen

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Routledge
31 December 2024

Film theory & criticism; Philosophy: aesthetics; Media studies; Jurisprudence & general issues; Social law

Series: Discourses of Law

This book explores how law can be understood through film by engaging creatively with the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of both fields.

The contributors to this book consider the need to turn to film and what this means for how we come to understand law and its absences. The chapters explore a variety of narratives, aesthetics, cinematic epistemologies and legal phenomena; from assessing law in social debates to film as legal critique, from notions of justice to contemplations on evil, and from masculine vigilantism to radical feminism. Taken together, they constitute an inspiring body of work that embodies an urgency for diverse and subversive ways to challenge law’s formalism and authority; and to think about and respond variously to law’s impotence, its disappointment, or its boredom.

This book will appeal to legal scholars and students in law and the humanities, especially those with interests in aesthetics, law and literature, law and culture, law and society, and critical legal theory.

Edited by: Vittoria Becci, Alexia Katsiginis, Edward Van Daalen
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032609379
ISBN 10: 1032609370
Series: Discourses of Law
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 31 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Vittoria Becci is a doctorate candidate at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris, France. Alexia Katsiginis is a doctoral candidate at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris, France. Edward van Daalen is a socio-legal researcher and postdoctoral fellow at the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory (LLDRL) at McGill University, Canada.

Reviews for Law and Film: Critical Reflections on a Field in Motion

"""The joys of reading this volume can only be matched by the personal enthusiasm of its editors: straight out of an extraordinarily imaginative series of film-projection-and-discussion events at Sciences Po ‘Eating Popcorn like a Lawyer’ (in which I have had the privilege of being invited), this book continues with the same personal freshness, ludic inventiveness, and rigorous analysis of the intersection between juridical thought and moving image. The result is nothing less than astonishing: a panorama of spectacular reconfigurations of both what law and what cinema is through a fine balance of personal autoethnographic details, film theory, philosophy, aesthetics, and critical legal and critical sociolegal theory. This is an astutely curated collection, with early career as well as established interdisciplinary thinkers, that pushes the limits of law, image, senses, perceptions and affects. What unites all chapters is a strong sense of responsibility to open up the law to the revitalising power of films. An extremely fresh and valuable addition to the law and film literature"" Professor Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Legal Theorist / Artist / Fiction Author, University of Westminster, London, UK"