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Sensing justice through contemporary Spanish cinema : aesthetics, politics, law

Title
Sensing justice through contemporary Spanish cinema : aesthetics, politics, law / Mónica López Lerma.
Author
López Lerma, Mónica
Publication
  • Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Description
viii, 183 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
Explores the aesthetic frames that mediate the sense(s) and experiences of justice. Close analysis of films such as Pan's Labyrinth, High Heels, Common Wealth, The Method, No Rest for the Wicked and Unit 7. Engages with legal theory, film studies, aesthetics and politics. Approaches law and film as multisensory, embodied practices. Draws on European case studies in a field largely dominated by Anglo-American discourse. Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema 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. 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.
Series Statement
Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
Uniform Title
Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
Subject
  • Motion pictures > Spain > History
  • Justice, Administration of, in motion pictures
  • Law in motion pictures
  • Motion pictures
  • Spain
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-175) and index.
Call Number
MFL 21-1206
ISBN
  • 9781474442046
  • 1474442048
OCLC
1232647184
Author
López Lerma, Mónica, author.
Title
Sensing justice through contemporary Spanish cinema : aesthetics, politics, law / Mónica López Lerma.
Publisher
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-175) and index.
Research Call Number
MFL 21-1206
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