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Cultural legal studies : law's popular cultures and the metamorphosis of law / edited by Cassandra Sharp and Marett Leiboff.

Sharp, Cassandra, (editor.). Leiboff, Marett, (editor.).

Summary:

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 theory. Moving beyond the 'law ands' (literature, humanities, culture, film, visual and aesthetics) on which it is based, this book demonstrates how the techniques and practices of cultural legal studies can be used to metamorphose law and the legalities that underpin its popular imaginary. By drawing on three different mode.

"What can popular cultures offer law, as a basis for critical practice? This introduction to the 'cultural legal studies' movement takes up this question as it presents a new encounter with the 'cultural turn' in law and legal theory. Moving beyond the 'law ands' (literature, humanities, culture, film) on which it is based, cultural legal studies aims to metamorphose law and the legalities that underpin its popular imaginary. To this end, the collection brings together leading scholars from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Presenting a long-overdue identification and framing of its scope, methodologies and practice, and drawing on three different modes of cultural legal studies - storytelling, technology and jurisprudence - the collection showcases the intersectional practices of cultural legal studies and law in its popular cultural mode. In this respect, contributors to the collection deploy differentiated modes of cultural legal studies practice, adopting diverse philosophical, disciplinary, methodological and theoretical approaches and subjects of examination. The collection draws on this mix of diversity and homogeneity to argue that we must take seriously an interrogation of law as culture- that is, not asking how a text 'represents'law, but how the representational nature of both law and culture intersect: in short, how the 'juridical' becomes visible in various cultural forms and their technological manifestations, and so how law's popular cultures actively metamorphose law."-- Provided by publisher

Record details

ISBN: 9781317626268
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ISBN: 9780815382201
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Physical Description: 1 online resource
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A GlassHouse book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
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