Law, Cinema, and the Ill City: Imagining Justice and Order in Real and Fictional Cities

ISBN-13: 9781138337619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 128 str.

Anne Wagner; Le Cheng

Opis

This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city. The original and novel ideas presented in this book will be essential reading for those interested in the presentation of law and place in cultural texts such as film.

Spis treści

1. Editorial Chapter: Imagining Law, Justice and Order in Ill Cities, Anne Wagner & Le Cheng; Part I: Imagining Ill Cities, their treatments under various movie scenarios; 1. The Dark Side of Cleanliness and Order: Visual Renderings of Oppression in Dystopian Science Fiction Cinema, Raffaella Baccolini & Ira Torresi; 2. ‘Wanna Fight’: Utopia-Dystopia in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Recent Cinema, Mark Featherstone; 3. The Dysfunctional Town and the Social Contract: Figures of Violence in the Liberal Legal Imaginary - Honni Van Risjwijk; 4. Cities that Degrade: Ken Loach on Social Ills - Aleksandra Djurasovic and Milan Djurasovic; 5. Cities as Ill bodies? Cure them with a commons oriented approach – Dario Henri Haux; Part II: Visualizing the forms of ill cities; 6. The City Armed to the Teeth: Bending the law in the Italian crime Movies tradition - Guglielmo Siniscalachi; 7. Ill Cities in their perfect ‘form’: a re-reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini - Daniele D'Alvia; 8. The City as Ill Body: Visual Representations of Urban Landscapes in the Global South - John Hursh; 9. Bodies, Monuments, and Spaces in Between: Encountering spatialities in a film by Jonathan Perel - Silvina Alonso-Grosso