ISBN:
9780429808531
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (145 pages)
Series Statement:
Law, Language and Communication Ser.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
307.760973
Keywords:
City and town life-United States
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Imagining law, justice, and order in real and fictional ill cities -- 1 The narratives of justice, order, and morality in our cities -- Part I: Imagining ill cities: their treatments under various movie scenarios -- Part II: Visualizing the forms of ill cities -- Cities as living organisms -- References -- PART I: Imagining ill cities: their treatments under various movie scenarios -- 1. The dark side of cleanliness and order: Visual renderings of oppression in dystopian science fiction cinema -- 1 Once upon a time, (not so) far away: another space in utopia/dystopia -- 2 Spatializations of dystopia -- 3 Dirt and cleanliness as spatial metaphors of dis/order -- 4 Conclusions: away from the elsewhere? -- References -- 2. 'Wanna fight?': utopia-dystopia in Nicolas Winding Refn's recent cinema -- 1 The city as utopia-dystopia -- 2 Winding Refn's slaughterhouse ethics -- Filmography -- References -- 3. The dysfunctional town and the social contract: Figures of violence in the liberal legal imaginary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From freedom to subjection: the town's logic of exchange -- 3 Liberal values of equality and free choice -- 4 The aesthetics of injustice -- 5 The language of abstraction -- 6 Centrality of pain to contract moral authority in Dogville -- 7 Violence, justice, and law -- 8 Justice as allegory, justice in history -- References -- 4. Cities as ill bodies? Cure them with a commons-oriented approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Case history -- 3 Medication -- 4 A new form of urban commons? -- 5 Outlook -- References -- 5. Cities that degrade: Ken Loach on social ills -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical concepts -- 3 Cities that degrade: the underlining themes -- 4 Conclusion -- References.
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