4 A Tale of Two Gothams: Revolution, Sacrifice and the Rule of Law in The Dark Knight Rises

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments viii
4. Prologue: Reading the Law ‘Made Strange’ 1
5. 1 From Shyamalan’s Unbreakable to Snyder’s Man of Steel: Comic-book Mythology on Screen and the Co-implication of Good and Evil 28
6. 2 The Force of/as Modern Law: Justice, Order and the Secular Theology of Star Wars 74
7. 3 The Superhero ‘Made Strange’: A Christological Reading of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight 122
8. 4 A Tale of Two Gothams: Revolution, Sacrifice and the Rule of Law in The Dark Knight Rises 150
9. 5 Pauline Science Fiction: Alex Proyas’s I, Robot, Universalism and Love Beyond the Law 184
10. 6 Escaping the Bureaucratisation of Destiny: Law, Theology and Freedom in George Nolfi ’s The Adjustment Bureau 213
11. 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 241
12. Bibliography 268
13. Index 297