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A theological jurisprudence of speculative cinema : superheroes, science fictions and fantasies of modern law / Timothy Peters.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities | Edinburgh scholarship onlinePublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781399509435
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 340.1 23
LOC classification:
  • K230
Online resources: 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.
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Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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