An aesthetics of law and culture [electronic resource] : text, images, screens / special volume editors, Andrew T. Kenyon, Peter D. Rush. Law and Literature Association of Australia. International Conference (11th : 2002 : University of Melbourne Law School) Kenyon, Andrew T. Rush, Peter, 1959- Law and aesthetics Congresses. Culture and law Congresses. K18 .E837 v. 34 340/.11 22 340 "Almost all the chapters in this book emerged from the 11th International Conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. This special volume of "Studies in Law, Politics, and Society - The Aesthetics of Law and Culture: Texts, Images, Screens" - examines practices of representation and their relation to juridical and cultural formations. The chapters range across the media of speech and writing, word and image, legislation and judgment, literature, cinema and photography. The contributions draw on disciplines including jurisprudence, literary criticism, philosophy, cinema studies, art and visual studies, cartography, historiography and medicine. They are ordered according to four prominent themes in contemporary, theoretically informed critical scholarship: Crime Scenes: Sexuality and Representation; Sites Unsaid: Testimony, Image, Genre; (Post) Colonial Appropriations; and Screen Culture: Sovereignty, Cinema and Law. Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier JAI, 2004. 2004. 2004 Text 1 online resource (xiii, 303 p.) : http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1059-4337/34 eng Studies in law, politics and society, 1059-4337 ; v. 34 Studies in law, politics and society ; v. 34. Aesthetics of law and culture. Aesthetics of law and culture.