Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2022.2148369
Benjamin Goh
ABSTRACT This article considers the temporality of J. M. Coetzee’s Foe (1986) for what it suggests about the demands of authorship and copyright in the postcolonial present. By close reading the novel alongside some salient commentaries and intertexts, we attend to the interval between the postcolonial novel and its early modern predecessor Robinson Crusoe (1719), and suggest how the works could be so reread as to displace the limits of proprietary authorship.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2022.2148381
S. Machura, O. Litvinova, J. Cunningham
ABSTRACT In opera, the drama typically unfolds with transgressions against the law or social norms. Legal conflict and crime are important devices used to hold audience interest. Opera embodies a rich combination of acting and song, orchestral music, stage architecture, and a plethora of other dramaturgical devices. The emotional connotations of lawbreaking are laid bare like in no other form of art. The overwhelming effect on the audience may well balance out the pronounced artificiality of this form of art and leave a lasting message. Its content will depend on factors identified in the law and popular culture literature. Character development and legal-political message are key to what opera teaches an audience. Today, audio-visual recordings are the prevailing form of opera consumption. To do justice to the complexity of socio-legal aspects in opera, we suggest methods making use of recorded opera.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2022.2150171
Christopher Murray, Golnar Nabizadeh
ABSTRACT This symposium article brings together distinguished scholars from the field of criminology, graphic arts, creative industries and social policy, and English to reflect on a suite of ‘educational’ or ‘public information’ comics created by the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies (SCCS), based at the University of Dundee. There are now 20-plus titles available to the public for free download and distribution on a range of subject matters relating to healthcare, law and justice, science, forensic analysis, trauma and memory studies, as well as a diverse range of literary adaptations, creative responses to literary and cultural texts, and other subjects. Each of these works relies on a strong symbiotic relationship between their authors, experts, artists, editors, and other contributors to successfully convey every story at hand. Every comic is also meticulously reviewed for accuracy – both written and visual – at each stage of creation, leading up to publication. In this article, the contributors have focused on selected titles from our ‘educational’ comics series to generate incisive analyses that will be relevant to scholars working in a broad range of fields from law, psychology, the humanities and creative arts, to healthcare and the sciences, understood broadly. In order of appearance, the contributors are Paul Long, Christopher Pizzino, Angus Nurse, and Ian Horton.
这篇研讨会文章汇集了来自犯罪学、图形艺术、创意产业和社会政策领域的杰出学者，以及英语，以反思一套由位于邓迪大学的苏格兰漫画研究中心(SCCS)创作的“教育”或“公共信息”漫画。现在有20多种图书可供公众免费下载和分发，涉及保健、法律和司法、科学、法医分析、创伤和记忆研究等一系列主题，以及各种文学改编、对文学和文化文本的创造性反应和其他主题。每一部作品都依赖于作者、专家、艺术家、编辑和其他贡献者之间的紧密共生关系，以成功地传达手头的每一个故事。每一幅漫画在出版前的每个创作阶段都要经过仔细的审查，以确保其准确性——无论是文字上的还是视觉上的。在本文中，作者将重点放在我们的“教育”漫画系列中的精选标题上，以产生与法律，心理学，人文和创意艺术，医疗保健和科学等广泛领域的学者相关的深刻分析，并广泛理解。按出场顺序，撰稿人分别是Paul Long, Christopher Pizzino, Angus Nurse和Ian Horton。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2205329
P. Goodrich
Pronounced dead not far from two decades ago, the sub-discipline of law and literature appears not only to have withstood such damnatio memoriae, but to have expanded and pluralized its forms. While one might contest the stability of the umbrella term, the conventional study of law as represented in the literary canon has digressed and reformulated itself in conjunction with rhetoric, narratology, history, aesthetics, film studies, art criticism, theology, psychoanalysis, jurisliterature and, in Olson’s new treatise, affect theory. The multiplicity of disciplines has as its focal point not so much the literary transmission of law as the narrative relay of legal normativity in multi-modal forms, such as film, television, mobile optimized streaming, artworks, protests and other visual installations. What coheres this trend to remediation of the message of law is a dual transformation. First, law in its traditional monochrome textual form, Gothic typeface, black letters, has transformed into a more nebulous and mutable sense of legality, meaning a more quotidian and subjective interpretation of what is popularly perceived as law, the multiple social relays and reactions to the normative. In the wake of this shift of focus to lex populi or communal senses of legality comes affect theory and the passions that attach a populace to law in the Germanic sense of Rechtsgefühle, meaning popular feeling about the legal environment. Embedded in the political project of feminist theory, the work is driven both by the author’s own affect, her rage against injustice, as well as by a profound appreciation of the effects of the remediation of law in online and visual forms. The book is partly classificatory in that it tracks the various movements within the broadly defined remit of law and literature over the last two decades, but with tendrils that return to the late nineteenth-century German concept of ‘living law’. It is also prescriptive in that it advocates strongly for an affective concept and critical appreciation of the expanded boundaries or collapsible borders that the conjunction of passion and legality promises and promotes. So let me immediately address the straw and tingle, sturm und drang of my thesis, which is that the novel methodological and heuristic conjunction of legality and affect is best understood as a powerfully positive and pericranically proleptic thesis. In ontographic and epistemic terms the generosity of pluralization and the incorporation of the varied forms of the imaginal remediation of legality, aesthetic, poetic, affective and multimodal presented in such rigorous classificatory and beneficially didactic forms provides significant heuristic openings and political potentials while at the same time requiring a certain degree of contestation.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2023.2202451
R. Herz
ABSTRACT Taking as its focus the 1991 movie High Heels by Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, this article argues that the multi-layered narrative style of Almodóvar's films make them especially suited to the examination of present-day culture and society. High Heels is the story of a troubled mother–daughter relationship compounded with the subplot of a judge who is entrusted with the investigation of the murder of the daughter's husband. A judge by day, at night he performs as a drag artist in a gay bar (as well as occasionally slipping into other roles). The article contends that, rather than the two plots being in a hierarchical relationship, they are intertwined. Bringing her own biographical perspective as a former judge, Ruth Herz considers the significance of the Almodóvar's judge Dominguez's role as the one who navigates the intricate labyrinth of facts, feelings, and fantasies, and who mediates between the two plots. The unique method employed by Dominguez in his quest for the ‘truth’ challenges the deep-seated notion among the general public and in the judiciary itself of what judgecraft is. He demonstrates – albeit in a typically scandalous, parodic way – how the process of judging continues to remain enigmatic even under democracy, despite the claim of transparency and open courts.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-15DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2022.2150136
I. Horton
ABSTRACT This paper will examine the self-styled public information comics Chronicle: The Archive and Museum Anthology and Archives and Memory, both published by the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies (SCCS) in 2018. The comics in question deal with notions of the archival in very different ways both conceptually and stylistically. The discussion will highlight the legal and social justice issues these comics raise while focusing on the complex relationship between archival materials and memory. It will additionally consider these in relation to the concept of public information comics and unpack what such comics do that goes beyond the mere communication of information.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-05DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2022.2150188
A. Nurse
ABSTRACT Notions of law and order, protecting the vulnerable and seeking vengeance arguably dominate popular comic book narratives, reflecting societal concerns about the suffering engendered by crime, deviance and acts of terrorism. Contemporary society faces threats relating to rising crime, societal alienation and the globalized nature of terrorism that have been extensively considered, examined and dissected by the comics medium. But beyond the superhero and gritty crime narratives of mainstream comics publishers, the public information comic provides a means to address these more problematic issues in a discussion-based format. Public information comics combine the entertainment-based accessible format of the comic with an effective information delivery mechanism. This article examines Laura Findlay and Zu Dominiak’s Closure which examines the nature of trauma in comics. In their discussion of this topic, Findlay and Dominiak identify the immersive nature of comics and their ability to bend time and space so that the medium can serve as a means of dealing with events that occur unexpectedly and may require time to absorb and understand.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-28DOI: 10.1080/17521483.2022.2150209
Christopher Pizzino
ABSTRACT In both content and form, the comic ‘Closure’, written by Laura Findlay and illustrated by Zuzanna Dominiak, advances a notably complex view of the subject of trauma, and of the way comics can best portray this subject. Far from offering straightforward, easily summarized data on trauma, the creators enact a conflict between word and image, and between writer and illustrator, to explain how and why the topic of trauma resists easy summary, and to present comics as a powerful medium for expressing this complexity. Referencing the work of Art Spiegelman, especially his use of gag humour and satire, ‘Closure’ claims a place for comics, not as an easy way to absorb difficult information, but precisely as a way to capture and amplify its difficulty.
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