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Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Aesthetics, Politics, Law
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Book Presentation:
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.
About the Author:
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.
Press Reviews:
[...] Lerma's book breaks new ground in the study of law and film.– Marco Wan, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
Thanks to its attention to detail and an impressive theoretical reach this book will be of interest to those working in film studies, legal humanities and Spanish cultural studies and reaches beyond each of these areas individually to represent a truly transdisciplinary approach.– Abigail Loxham, Law & Literature
Through a compelling combination of theoretical creativity, historical scholarship, and brilliant close readings, Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema opens up a series of questions about the cinematic configuration of sensory experience, and about the sensory grounding of legal orders in contemporary Spain, that will be on the agenda of law and film scholars for years to come.– Javier Krauel, Law and Humanities
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
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