A theological jurisprudence of speculative cinema: superheroes, science fictions and fantasies of modern law

Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films, 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 spec...

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1. Verfasser: Peters, Timothy D. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh critical studies in law, literature and the humanities
Zusammenfassung:Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films, 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
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 268-296. Index
Beschreibung:xxii, 300 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:1474424007
9781474424004
9781474424028