203448

Springer, Dordrecht

2014

941 Pages

ISBN 978-90-481-9321-9

Law, culture and visual studies

Edited by

Anne Wagner , Richard K Sherwin


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.

Advance Praise for Law, Culture and Visual Studies

This diverse and exhilarating collection of essays explores themany facets both historical and contemporary of visual culture in the law. It opens a window onto the substantive, jurisdictional, disciplinary and methodological diversity of current research. It is a cornucopia of materials that will enliven legal studies for those new to the field as well as for established scholars. It is a "must read" that will leave you wondering about the validity of the long held obsession that reduces the law and legal studies to little more than a preoccupation with the word.

Leslie J Moran Professor of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London

Law, Culture & Visual Studies is a treasure trove of insights on the entwined roles of legality and visuality. From multiple interdisciplinary perspectives by scholars from around the world, these pieces reflect the fullness and complexities of our visual encounters with law and culture. From pictures to places to postage stamps, from forensics to film to folklore, this anthology is an exciting journey through the fertile field of law and visual culture as well as a testament that the field has come of age.

Naomi Mezey, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., USA

This highly interdisciplinary reference work brings together diverse fields including cultural studies, communication theory, rhetoric, law and film studies, legal and social history, visual and legal theory, in order to document the various historical, cultural, representational and theoretical links that bind together law and the visual. This book offers a breath-taking range of resources from both well-established and newer scholars who together cover the field of law's representation in, interrogation of, and dialogue with forms of visual rhetoric, practice, and discourse. Taken together this scholarship presents state of the art research into an important and developing dimension of contemporary legal and cultural inquiry. Above all, Law Culture and Visual Studies lays the groundwork for rethinking the nature of law in our densely visual culture: How are legal meanings produced, encoded, distributed, and decoded? What critical and hermeneutic skills, new or old, familiar or unfamiliar, will be needed? Topical, diverse, and enlivening, Law Culture and Visual Studies is a vital research tool and an urgent invitation to further critical thinking in the areas so well laid out in this collection.

Desmond Manderson, Future Fellow, ANU College of Law / Research School of Humanities & the Arts, Australian National University, Australia

Publication details

Full citation:

Wagner, A. , Sherwin, R.K. (eds) (2014). Law, culture and visual studies, Springer, Dordrecht.

Table of Contents

Devising law

Goodrich Peter

3-23

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Law and image

Heritier Paolo

25-48

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Representing sovereignty in renaissance England

Costantini Cristina; Morra Lucia

79-103

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Visual common sense

Feigenson Neal

105-124

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The photographic image

Torresi Ira

125-141

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The semiotics of film in us supreme court cases

Silbey Jessica; Hayes Slack Meghan

179-203

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Drawing attention

Summerfield Tracey

225-240

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Semiotic interpretation in trademark law

Butters Ronald R.

261-282

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The criminal trial as theater

Brion Denis J.

329-359

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Signs at odds?

Cramer Renee Ann

471-496

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Emblem of folk legality

Marusek Sarah

497-512

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Constructing courts

Resnik Judith; Curtis Dennis; Tait Allison

515-545

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Saying the saffu and beating the law

Virtanen Pekka

547-572

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Visual art in American courthouses

Fox James R.

615-627

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Mediating disputes with digital media

Gotti Maurizio; D'Angelo Larissa

631-648

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The alleged liveness of "live"

Pugliese Joseph

649-669

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Visual legal commentary

Petroski Karen

671-696

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The invisible court

Hobbs Pamela

697-719

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Hollywood's hero-lawyer

Kamir Orit

747-773

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Justice for the disabled

Yar Majid; Rafter Nicole

791-804

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Trial by ordeal

Spiesel Christina O.

825-847

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The visibly offensive offender

Madeira Jody Lynée

849-871

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A tale of many newspapers

Wan Marco; Leung Janny

873-889

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Make 'em laugh

Hemmings Mary

893-915

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Judge Dredd

Kozin Alexander

917-941

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