Law and New Media: West of Everything

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International specialists from law, media, film and virtual studies address the jurist in the era of digital transmission. From the cinema of the early 20th century to social media, this volume explores the multiple intersections of these visual technologies and the law. Figures Contributors 1 Introduction: West of Everything Part 1 Heading West 2 The Aesthetics of Convivencia: Visualising a Mode of Living Together in Al-Andalus 3 Auriculation 4 Is Pasteur American? The Story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle, 1936): From Nineteenth-century Laboratory to Twentieth-century Trials – A Transnational Perspective 5 Souvenir, Fiction, Imagination: The Times of Fascism in The Conformist 6 The Law of the Father and the Order of Time: Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter 7 The Litigating Dead: Zombie Jurisprudence in Contemporary Popular Culture 8 Form of Life: How the Law Became an Image Part 2 New Frontiers of Jurisprudence 9 Virtual Judges in Immigrant Detention: The Mise-en-scène of No-show Justice 10 Comity, Facebook and the (Legal) Personality of Animals 11 Moral Choices and Ethical Systems in Videogames 12 Reading Law: A Beginner’s Guide to the Manual of How to Read the Book of Law Yet to Come 13 Registers of Gay Marriage in New Media and Law 14 Kamikaze Law: On the Aesthetics of the Legal War on Terror Index