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Gomez Romero, Luis and Ian Dahlman. "Justice Framed: Law in comics and graphic novels." Law Text Culture 16. (2012): 3–32. Added by: joachim (23/02/2013, 16:16) Last edited by: joachim (09/06/2016, 23:08) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: Romero2012 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Justice Creators: Dahlman, Gomez Romero Collection: Law Text Culture |
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| Attachments | URLs http://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol16/iss1/2 |
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Justice Framed is born of the passionate and rich – though not always peaceful or courteous – nexus between two long-time companions: comics and law. Comics are utterly gripped by issues of legality, order and justice, but their theoretical and ideological partnership has been conspicuously neglected in legal scholarship. Even in the emerging field of law and the visual, or in the firmly established disciplines of criminal justice studies or law and popular culture, jurisprudential and sociopolitical texts addressing law’s manifestations in, around, and through the comic frame are still an odd rarity – with a few remarkable exceptions. While law’s fascination with control and order is reflected in the existing literature dealing with the governance of comics by legal rules – the law of art – the ways in which comics imagine and depict law – the art of law – are still academically underestimated and underexamined. Fortunately, the situation seems to be rapidly ameliorating. This special issue of Law Text Culture reflects a growing interest among scholars in the insight and opportunity comics provide for illuminating, developing and critiquing law.
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