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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, Unit 7Engages with legal theory, film studies, aesthetics, and politicsApproaches law and film as multisensory, embodied practicesDraws on European case studies in a field largely dominated by Anglo-American discourseSensing Justice 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—such as Pan's Labyrinth, High Heels, Common Wealth, The Method, No Rest for the Wicked, Unit 7. 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. Engaging with legal theory, film studies, aesthetics, and politics, Sensing Justice provides a compelling illustration of how law and justice are multisensory and embodied experiences.
Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Sensing Justice
1. Framing Aesthetics: Witnessing Francoism in Pan's Labyrinth An Aesthetic Approach to Human Rights CinemaViewers as WitnessesVidal: Franco's "Politics of Revenge"Mercedes: The "Heroic Memory" of the ResistanceOfelia: The Two Worlds and the Vigilant ImaginationConclusion: The Return
2. Campy Performances: Queering Law in High Heels Postmodern Re-ImaginingsThe Persecution of the LGBTQ people under FrancoThe Significance of the Performance for the ViewerLaw as Mother: Ethics and Justice of CareLaw as Performance: Ethics and Justice of AlterityJudging Law, Performing JusticeCinematic Judgment: Ethics of ResponseTruth and JusticeCamp Aesthetics: Law as Queer Performance
3. Dissensus in the Community: Disrupting Neoliberal Affects in La Comunidad Spain and the Neoliberal "Politics of Consensus"The Regime of the All-VisibleJulia and the Consumer SocietyThe Community of Neighbors and the politics of ConsensusCharlie's DissensusCharlie and Julia: A New Community?
4. The Sound of Protest: Acousmatic Resistance in El Método The Grönholm Method: Beyond PanopticismThe Split Screen: Framing the Space of the Visible The Acousmatic Sound of Protest
5. Surveilling Terror: Post-Western Topographies in No Rest for the Wicked Infinite Justice and the Ethical TurnThe Media and the Securitization of SpaceTrinidad and the Politics of the Post-WesternJudge Chacón and the Topography of the Possible
6. Policing the City: Haptic Visuality in Grupo 7 Mapping the City: The Production of SpaceThe Right to the CityThe Construction of the Urban Space as ResistanceConclusion: Law and Space
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