Marco Wan

Broschiertes Buch

Film and Constitutional Controversy

Beschreibung

Using Hong Kong as a case study, this book argues that film can show us how constitutional controversies impact upon cultural identity, a crucial dimension overlooked in conventional legal analysis. Provides new interpretations of key constitutional issues and films. Draws upon author's background in both legal and literary/cultural studies.

Autor

Marco Wan is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Literary Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong. He is trained in both legal and literary/cultural studies, and his research focuses on law and film, law and literature, and the ways in which perspectives from the humanities shed light on the legal regulation of gender and sexuality. His first book, Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (2017), was awarded the Penny Pether Prize from the Law, Literature, and Humanities Association of Australasia. He is Managing Editor of Law and Literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 167mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781108797764
• ISBN-10: 1108797768
• Artikelnr.: 59544461