Images in Law.
Title:
Images in Law.
Author:
Pencak, William.
ISBN:
9780754680505
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Biographical Notes -- Introduction -- Part 1: Images of Law -- 1 Deep Structures of Empire: A Note on Imperial Machines and Bodies -- 2 Intervention and The New Imagery of World Order -- 3 Key Words in Chinese Law -- 4 Visual Semiotics of Court Dress in England and Wales: Failed or Successful Vector of Professional Identity? -- 5 The Drama of the Courtroom -- 6 Digital Visual and Multimedia Software and the Reshaping of Legal Knowledge -- 7 A Las Meninas for the Law -- Part 2: Legal Language in Action -- 8 Legal Language in Action: Raising Basic Awareness about and Understanding of Competing Legal Systems in the Legal Classroom -- 9 Discourses of the Ideal and the Actual in the Courtroom: The Conflict for Jurors in 'Making Sense' of General Instructions -- 10 Jurors' Recorded Deliberations: An Analysis -- 11 'Let Me See Your Hands': The Grammar of Physical Control in Police Directives -- 12 Images of the Irish Family: A 'Slightly' Constitutional Arrangement -- 13 Images of Racial Discrimination in France -- 14 Law's Trouble with Images: Fetishism and Seduction from Athens and Jerusalem to Madison Avenue -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
What does 'the law' look like? While numerous attempts have been made to examine law and legal action in terms of its language, little has yet been written that considers how visual images of the law influence its interpretation and execution in ways not discernible from written texts. This groundbreaking collection focuses on images in law, featuring contributions that show and discuss the perception of the legal universe on a theoretical basis or when dealing with visual semiotics (dress, ceremony, technology, etc.). It also examines 'language in action', analyzing jury instructions, police directives, and how imagery is used in conjunction with contentious social and political issues within a country, such as the image of family in Ireland or the image of racism in France.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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