Law and New Media West of Everything

by Delage, Christian; Goodrich, Peter; Wan, Marco

• ISBN13: 9781474445825
• ISBN10: 1474445829
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-06-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Christian Delage is Professor and Director of the Institut d'Histoire du Temps Présent at the University of Paris-VIII. He has also taught at the Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris and the Cardozo Law School in New York. His films include Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes and Cameras in the Courtroom.

Peter Goodrich is Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, New York and Visiting Professor in the School of Social Science at NYU Abu Dhabi. He was the founding dean of the Department of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law. He has written extensively in legal history and theory, law and literature and semiotics and has authored 12 books. He is the executive editor of the journal Law and Literature (Taylor & Francis), and was the founding editor of Law and Critique (Springer). His most recent books are Schreber's Law: Jurisprudence and Judgment in Transition (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) and Legal Emblems and the Art of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013). To this coruscating and lucifugous erudition can be added co-writing and co-producing the award winning documentary Auf Wiedersehen: 'Til we Meet Again (Diskin Films, 2012).

Marco Wan is Associate Professor of Law and Honorary Associate Professor of English at the University of Hong Kong. Marco is the author of Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2016).

Table of Contents

List of Figures

1 Introduction: West of Everything
Christian Delage, Peter Goodrich and Marco Wan

Part I: Heading West

2. The Aesthetics of 'Convivencia'. Visualising a Mode of Living Together in Al Andalus
Raja Sakrani

3. Auriculation
Peter Goodrich

4. Pasteur (William Dieterle, 1936): A Transmedia Pioneering Role in Health Imagery and Sanitary Public Policies
Claire Demoulin

5. Souvenir, Fiction, Imaginary. Times of Fascism in The Conformist by Alberto Moravia and Bernardo Bertolucci
Thibault Guichard

6. The Law of the Father and The Order of Time: Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter
Christian Delage

7. The Litigating Dead: Zombie Jurisprudence in The Walking Dead, World War Z and The Rising
William MacNeil

8. Lifestyle: How to Become an Image
Emanuele Coccia

Part II: New Frontiers of Jurisprudence

9. Virtual Judges in Immigrant Detention: The Mise en Scène of No-show Justice
Michelle Castaneda

10. Facebook and the (Legal) Personality of Animals
Christopher Hutton

11. Moral Choices and Legal Norms in Videogames and Interactive Film
Antoine Rocipon

12. Synesthetic Law; or, How VR Teaches Us to Perceive Law Differently
Daniela Gandorfer

13. Visual Advocacy: The Case of Same-sex Marriage
Marco Wan

14. Kamikaze Law: On the Aesthetics of the Legal War on Terror
Laurent de Sutter

Index