1 Introduction: West of Everything

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Contributors ix
5. 1 Introduction: West of Everything 1
6. Part 1. Heading West
7. 2 The Aesthetics of Convivencia: Visualising a Mode of Living Together in Al-Andalus 31
8. 3 Auriculation 56
9. 4 Is Pasteur American? Th e Story of Louis Pasteur (William Dieterle, 1936): From Nineteenthcentury Laboratory to Twentieth-century Trials – A Transnational Perspective 73
10. 5 Souvenir, Fiction, Imagination: The Times of Fascism in The Conformist 90
11. 6 The Law of the Father and the Order of Time: Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter 111
12. 7 The Litigating Dead: Zombie Jurisprudence in Contemporary Popular Culture 138
13. 8 Form of Life: How the Law Became an Image 156
14. Part 2. New Frontiers of Jurisprudence
15. 9 Virtual Judges in Immigrant Detention: The Mise-en-scène of No-show Justice 169
16. 10 Comity, Facebook and the (Legal) Personality of Animals 197
17. 11 Moral Choices and Ethical Systems in Videogames 210
18. 12 Reading Law: A Beginner’s Guide to the Manual of How to Read the Book of Law Yet to Come 222
19. 13 Registers of Gay Marriage in New Media and Law 246
20. 14 Kamikaze Law: On the Aesthetics of the Legal War on Terror 257
21. Index 269