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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction: Law, Culture, and Visual Studies / Richard K. Sherwin -- Part I. Introducing Visual Legal Studies. Devising Law: On the Philosophy of Legal Emblems / Peter Goodrich -- Law and Image: Towards a Theory of Nomograms / Paolo Heritier -- The Book as Authoritative Sign in Seventeenth-Century England: A Review Through the Lens of Holistic Media Theory / Paul Douglas Callister -- Representing Sovereignty in Renaissance England: Pictorial Metaphors and the Visibility of Law / Cristina Costantini and Lucia Morra -- Visual Common Sense / Neal Feigenson -- The Photographic Image: Truth or Sign? / Ira Torresi -- Visualization Between Fictitious Law and Factual Behaviour: A Pragmatic-Institutional Analysis / Hanneke van Schooten -- Part II. Visualizing Legal Scholarship. The First Amendment and the Second Commandment / Amy Adler -- The Semiotics of Film in US Supreme Court Cases / Jessica Silbey and Meghan Hayes Slack -- Looking Again at Photographs and Privacy: Theoretical Perspectives on Law's Treatment of Photographs as Invasions of Privacy / David Rolph -- Drawing Attention: Art, Pornography, Ethnosemiotics and Law / Alec McHoul and Tracey Summerfield -- What's Wrong with Pink Pearls and Cornrow Braids? Employee Dress Codes and the Semiotic Performance of Race and Gender in the Workplace / Janet Ainsworth -- Semiotic Interpretation in Trademark Law: The Empirical Study of Commercial Meanings in American English of "Checkered Pattern" / Ronald R. Butters -- A Multimodal Social Semiotic Approach to Shape in the Forensic Analysis of Trademarks / Christian Mosbæk Johannessen -- French Commemorative Postage Stamps as a Means of Legal Culture and Memory / Anne Wagner and Malik Bozzo-Rey -- The Criminal Trial as Theater: The Semiotic Power of the Image / Denis J. Brion -- Part III. Law and Iconic Art. Do You See What I See? Iconic Art and Culture and the Judicial Eye in Australian Law / Marett Leiboff -- The Iconography of the Giving of the Law: A Semiotic Overview / Massimo Leone -- Daumier and Replacing the King's Body / Oliver Watts -- Law, Code, and Governance in Prophetic Painting: Notes on the Emergence of Early, High, and Late Modern Forms of Life and Governance / Ronnie Lippens -- Part IV. Visualizing Law in Indigenous or Folk Loric Culture. Signs at Odds? The Semiotics of Law, Legitimacy, and Authenticity in Tribal Contexts / Renee Ann Cramer -- Emblem of Folk Legality: Semiotic Prosecution and the American Bald Eagle / Sarah Marusek -- Part V. Visualizing Law's Topography. Constructing Courts: Architecture, the Ideology of Judging, and the Public Sphere / Judith Resnik, Dennis Curtis and Allison Tait -- Saying the Saffu and Beating the Law: The Changing Role of Sacred Sites in the Oromo Politico-Juridical System / Pekka Virtanen -- The Mandala State in Pre-British Sri Lanka: The Cosmographical Terrain of Contested Sovereignty in the Theravada Buddhism Tradition / Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne -- Linguistic Landscape, Law and Reflexive Modernity / Christopher Mark Hutton -- Visual Art in American Courthouses / James R. Fox -- Part VI. Visual Technologies of Law. Mediating Disputes with Digital Media / Maurizio Gotti and Larissa D'Angelo -- The Alleged Liveness of "Live": Legal Visuality, Biometric Liveness Testing and the Metaphysics of Presence / Joseph Pugliese -- Visual Legal Commentary / Karen Petroski -- The Invisible Court: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and Its Depiction on Government Websites / Pamela Hobbs -- Part VII. Law and Popular Visual Media: "Case Studies". Seeking Truth and Telling Stories in Cinema and the Courtroom: Reversal of Fortune's Reflexive Critique / Cynthia Lucia -- Hollywood's Hero-Lawyer: A Liminal Character and Champion of Equal Liberty / Orit Kamir -- The Representation of Law on Film: Mr. Deeds and Adam's Rib Go to Court / Wim Staat -- Justice for the Disabled: Crime Films on Punishment and the Human Rights of People with Learning Disabilities / Majid Yar and Nicole Rafter -- 'Make Enough Money, Everything Else Will Follow': Litigation and the Signification of Happiness in Popular Culture / Jason Bainbridge -- Trial by Ordeal: CSI and the Rule of Law / Christina O. Spiesel -- The Visibly Offensive Offender: A Semiotic Phenomenology of an Execution / Jody Lynée Madeira -- A Tale of Many Newspapers: Perversion, Criminality, and Scopophilia in the Edison Chen Scandal / Marco Wan and Janny Leung -- Part VIII. Law and Popular Visual Media: In Theory. Make 'em Laugh: Images of Law in Eighteenth Century Popular Culture / Mary Hemmings -- Judge Dredd: Dreaming of Instant Justice / Alexander V. Kozin -- Oil and Water Do Not Mix: Constitutional Law and American Popular Culture / David Ray Papke -- Where There Is No Need to Screen Local Justice: Law and Film in Israel / Shulamit Almog -- Influence of Public Perceptions of Media Legality on Making Biopic Films / Betty L. Hart -- Film and the Reconstruction of Memory / Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas -- The Impact of Film and Television on Perceptions of Law and Justice: Towards a Realisable Methodology / Peter Robson, Guy Osborn and Steve Greenfield |
| Summary |
The proposed volumes are aimed at a multidisciplinary audience and seek to fill the gap between law, semiotics and visuality providing a comprehensive theoretical and analytical overview of legal visual semiotics. They seek to promote an interdisciplinary debate from law, semiotics and visuality bringing together the cumulative research traditions of these related areas as a prelude to identifying fertile avenues for research going forward |
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recht |
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law |
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Law (General) |
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Recht (algemeen) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Culture and law
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Semiotics (Law)
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LAW -- Essays.
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LAW -- General Practice.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
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LAW -- Practical Guides.
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LAW -- Reference.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Culture and law
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Semiotics (Law)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Wagner, Anne, 1968-
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Sherwin, Richard K
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| ISBN |
9789048193226 |
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9048193222 |
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