Monica Lopez Lerma

Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema (eBook, PDF)

Aesthetics, Politics, Law

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the aesthetic frames that mediate the sense(s) and experiences of justiceClose analysis of films such as Pan's Labyrinth, High Heels, Common Wealth, The Method, No Rest for the Wicked, Unit 7Engages with legal theory, film studies, aesthetics, and politicsApproaches law and film as multisensory, embodied practicesDraws on European case studies in a field largely dominated by Anglo-American discourseSensing Justice examines the aesthetic frames that mediate the sensory perception and signification of law and justice in the context of 21st century Spain. What senses do these frames privilege or downgrade? What kind of subjects do they show, construct, and address? What kind of affective and ethical responses do they invite? What kind of judgments do they invite? The book addresses these questions by moving away from the focus on narrative and through a close analysis of selected contemporary Spanish films-such as Pan's Labyrinth, High Heels, Common Wealth, The Method, No Rest for the Wicked, Unit 7. By creating new frames of perception and signification, the films analyzed challenge the senses of law and justice traditionally taken for granted and reconfigure them anew. Engaging with legal theory, film studies, aesthetics, and politics, Sensing Justice provides a compelling illustration of how law and justice are multisensory and embodied experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474442060
• Artikelnr.: 72430862

Autorenporträt

Mónica López Lerma is Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities at Reed College. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Film Studies from the University of Michigan. She is the co-editor of Rancière and Law (Routledge, 2018). She was editor-in-chief of No-Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice from 2012 to 2017.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Sensing Justice
1. Framing Aesthetics: Witnessing Francoism in Pan's Labyrinth
An Aesthetic Approach to Human Rights Cinema
Viewers as Witnesses
Vidal: Franco's "Politics of Revenge"
Mercedes: The "Heroic Memory" of the Resistance
Ofelia: The Two Worlds and the Vigilant Imagination
Conclusion: The Return
2. Campy Performances: Queering Law in High Heels
Postmodern Re-Imaginings
The Persecution of the LGBTQ people under Franco
The Significance of the Performance for the Viewer
Law as Mother: Ethics and Justice of Care
Law as Performance: Ethics and Justice of Alterity
Judging Law, Performing Justice
Cinematic Judgment: Ethics of Response
Truth and Justice
Camp Aesthetics: Law as Queer Performance
3. Dissensus in the Community: Disrupting Neoliberal Affects in La Comunidad
Spain and the Neoliberal "Politics of Consensus"
The Regime of the All-Visible
Julia and the Consumer Society
The Community of Neighbors and the politics of Consensus
Charlie's Dissensus
Charlie and Julia: A New Community?
4. The Sound of Protest: Acousmatic Resistance in El Método
The Grönholm Method: Beyond Panopticism
The Split Screen: Framing the Space of the Visible
The Acousmatic Sound of Protest
5. Surveilling Terror: Post-Western Topographies in No Rest for the Wicked
Infinite Justice and the Ethical Turn
The Media and the Securitization of Space
Trinidad and the Politics of the Post-Western
Judge Chacón and the Topography of the Possible
6. Policing the City: Haptic Visuality in Grupo
7. Mapping the City: The Production of Space
The Right to the City
The Construction of the Urban Space as Resistance
Conclusion: Law and Space
Conclusion
Bibliography.