Legal Stagings
The Visualization, Medialization and Ritualization of Law in Language, Literature, Media, Art and Architecture
Distributed for Museum Tusculanum Press
Legal Stagings
The Visualization, Medialization and Ritualization of Law in Language, Literature, Media, Art and Architecture
302 pages | 10 color plates, 22 halftones, 1 line drawing, 4 tables | 6 3/8 x 9 1/2 | © 2012
Law and Legal Studies: General Legal Studies

Table of Contents
Preface
I. Introduction
1. Visualization of a Nordic Legal Modernity: From August Strindberg to Lars von Trier
Kjell Å Modéer
2. Visualization of the Law
Peter Wahlgren
3. On-stage and Off-stage European and Global Legal Scenes
Hanne Petersen
II. Law and the Media
4. Media Industry, Economy and Value in Crisis: The Role of Contemporary Journalism in Relation to the Danish Cartoon Controversy
Khaled D. Ramadan
5. Freedom from Publicity or Right to Information?: Visual Cultures of the Courtroom
Lynda Nead
III. The Visuality of Law
6. Law as Visual Communication
Dag Michalsen
7. The Patron-Client Relations Visualized
Cecilie Schjatvet
8. The Menace of Venice, Or Reading and Performing the Law in/of The Merchant of Venice
Leif Dahlberg
9. Man and Dog: The Modernity of Law—Jurists, Violence, Poetries, and a Photograph
Rainer Maria Kiesow
IV. Courts of Law: Their Buildings, Rooms and Actors
10. Images of Finnish Justice
Pia Letto-Vanamo
11. Imagining the Judge: A Case Study of Judicial Portraiture
Leslie Moran
12. This Is Not a Courthouse
Eva Löfgren
13. Stage Justice
Lisbeth Fullu Skyberg
14. From Stone Circle to Transit Hall: Law and Art in the District Court Buildings in Ängelholm and Helsingborg
Martin Sunnqvist
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