A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema : : Superheroes, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law / / Timothy Peters.
Sets a new trajectory for considering the intertwined relationship between theology and law through speculative cinemaOffers 7 close readings of Hollywood speculative fiction blockbusters as theological and jurisprudential texts: Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, Snyder’s Man of Steel, Lucas and Disney’s Sta...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Reading the Law ‘Made Strange’
- 1 From Shyamalan’s Unbreakable to Snyder’s Man of Steel: Comic-book Mythology on Screen and the Co-implication of Good and Evil
- 2 The Force of/as Modern Law: Justice, Order and the Secular Theology of Star Wars
- 3 The Superhero ‘Made Strange’: A Christological Reading of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight
- 4 A Tale of Two Gothams: Revolution, Sacrifice and the Rule of Law in The Dark Knight Rises
- 5 Pauline Science Fiction: Alex Proyas’s I, Robot, Universalism and Love Beyond the Law
- 6 Escaping the Bureaucratisation of Destiny: Law, Theology and Freedom in George Nolfi ’s The Adjustment Bureau
- 7 ‘If more people valued home above gold this world would be a merrier place’: Hospitality, Gift-exchange and the Theological Jurisprudence of J. R. R. Tolkien’s and Peter Jackson’s Th e Hobbit
- Bibliography
- Index