A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema: Superheroes, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law

ISBN-13: 9781474424004 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 312 str.

Timothy Peters

Spis treści

Prologue: Reading the Law ‘Made Strange’; 1. From Shyamalan’s Unbreakable to Snyder’s Man of Steel: Comic Book Mythology on Screen and the Co-Implication of Good and Evil; 2. The Force of/as Modern Law: Justice, Order and the Secular Theology of Star Wars; 3. The Superhero ‘Made Strange’: A Christological Reading of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight; 4. A Tale of Two Gothams: Revolution, Sacrifice and the Rule of Law in The Dark Knight Rises; 5. Pauline Science Fiction: Alex Proyas’ I, Robot, Universalism and Love Beyond the Law; 6. Escaping the Bureaucratisation of Destiny: Law, Theology and Freedom in George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau; 7. ‘If more people valued home above gold this world would be a merrier place’: Hospitality, Gift-Exchange and the Theological Jurisprudence of JRR Tolkien’s and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit.