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  • The Cinematics of Jurisprudence: Scenes of Law's Moving Image

    Author(s)
    Mussawir, E.
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    Mussawir, Edward
    Year published
    2005
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    Abstract
    Finding the themes for an image-based jurisprudence within Law's Moving Image, a collection of interdisciplinary academic pieces on law and cinema, this review article attempts, using a Deleuzian art, to map the assemblages of law and cinema to a zone of shared conceptuality. Law's Moving Image addresses three elements of cinematics-framing, shot, and montage-and posits them as indistinguishable from the respective elements of a juristic image-censorship, sovereignty, and logic. We can understand why scholars are ceasing to ask just what the effect of law is on cinema, or vice versa, and beginning to focus on the indistinction ...
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    Finding the themes for an image-based jurisprudence within Law's Moving Image, a collection of interdisciplinary academic pieces on law and cinema, this review article attempts, using a Deleuzian art, to map the assemblages of law and cinema to a zone of shared conceptuality. Law's Moving Image addresses three elements of cinematics-framing, shot, and montage-and posits them as indistinguishable from the respective elements of a juristic image-censorship, sovereignty, and logic. We can understand why scholars are ceasing to ask just what the effect of law is on cinema, or vice versa, and beginning to focus on the indistinction that defines each as a conceptual practice.
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    Journal Title
    Law and Literature
    Volume
    17
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/lal.2005.17.1.131
    Subject
    Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/39500
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