A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema by Timothy D Peters

A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema by Timothy D Peters

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Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films including The Dark Knight, Unbreakable, I, Robot and The Hobbit, Timothy Peters explores how fictional worlds, particularly those that 'make strange' the world of the viewer, can render visible and make explicit the otherwise opaque theologies of modern law.

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A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema by Timothy D Peters

Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films including The Dark Knight, Unbreakable, I, Robot and The Hobbit, Timothy Peters explores how fictional worlds, particularly those that 'make strange' the world of the viewer, can render visible and make explicit the otherwise opaque theologies of modern law. He illustrates that speculative cinema's genres of estrangement provide a way for us to see and engage the theological concepts of modern law in our era of late capitalism, global empire and the crises of neoliberalism.
Timothy D Peters is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast, an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Law Futures Centre, Griffith University and President of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia. He is co-editor (with Dr Karen Crawley) of Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation (Routledge, 2018) and the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (project number DE200100881) funded by the Australian Government, examining ‘New Approaches to Corporate Legality: Beyond Neoliberal Governance’.
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ISBN 13 9781474424004
ISBN 10 1474424007
Title A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema
Author Timothy Peters
Series Edinburgh Critical Studies In Law Literature And The Humanities
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Year published 2021-10-22
Number of pages 312
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