Table of Contents
PART I
Spectacles of Law and Justice
2 I, Archive: Envisioning and Programming Digital Legality from SyFy’s Caprica
Kieran Tranter
3 Don’t Blink: Monstrous Justice and the Weeping Angels of Doctor WhoPenny Crofts
4 ‘Seeing’ Justice Done: Envisioning Legality in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy
Timothy D Peters
5 Machiavellian Fantasy and the Game of Laws: Rex, Sex and Lex in George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire
William P MacNeil
PART II
Juridical Spectators
6 Ambivalence and the Spectatorship of Violence: Viewing Inglourious Basterds Alison Young
7 Trench, Trail, Screen: Scenes from the scopic regime of sovereignty
Desmond Manderson
8 The Confessor: Oprah Winfrey, James Frey, and the Spectacular Logic of Contemporary Confession
Karen Crawley and Desmond Manderson
PART III
Scenes of Legality
9 Legal Unconsciousness: Tragedy and Melodrama in the Wake of Terror
Bonnie Honig
10 Mephistopheles in Hamsterdam: Carnival and the State of Exception in HBO’s The Wire Edwin Bikundo
11 Intercultural Cinema and the (Re)Envisioning of Law: Exploring Life, Death and Law in Atanarjuat and Before Tomorrow Rebecca Johnson