Routledge is publishing a new
book on how pictures have been used to make, manage and circulate ideas about
the judiciary through a variety of media from the 16th century to the present.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Law, Judges and Visual
Culture analyses how pictures have been used to make, manage and
circulate ideas about the judiciary through a variety of media from the 16th
century to the present.
This book offers a new approach
to thinking about and making sense of an important social institution; the
judiciary. In an age in which visual images and celebrity play a key role in
the way we produce, communicate and consume ideas about society and its key
institutions, this book provides the first in depth study of visual images of
judges in that context. It not only examines what appears within the frame of
these images, it also explores the impact technologies and the media industries
that produce them have upon the way we engage with them, and the experiences
and meanings they generate. Drawing upon a wide range of scholarship –
including art history, film and television studies, social and cultural studies
as well as law – and interviews with a variety of practitioners, painters,
photographers, television script writers and producers, as well as court
communication staff and judges – the book generates new and unique insights
into making, managing and viewing pictures of judges.
Original and insightful, Law,
Judges and Visual Culture will appeal to scholars, postgraduates and
undergraduates from a variety of disciplines interested in the role of visual
culture in the production social justice and its institutions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leslie J. Moran is
Emeritus Professor in the School of Law Birkbeck College University of London.
He has an international reputation for his research and scholarship in various
areas; identity politics and law; hate crime; law and visual culture. Other
publications include the monographs The (Homo)sexuality of Law (1996) and
Sexuality and the politics of violence and safety, with Beverly Skeggs, Paul
Tyrer and Karen Corteen (2004) and a number of edited collections including
Legal Queeries (1998) with Daniel Monk and Sarah Beresford, Law’s Moving Image,
(2004) with Ian Christie, Emma Sandon and Elena Loizidou and Judicial Images
(2018) published as a special edition of International Journal of Law in
Context.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Judging pictures
2. Painted portraits
3. Hanging judicial heads
4. Judges through the lens; Carte
de visite portraits
5. The judge, the album and the
imagined community
6. Cameras in court 1:
Introducing Judge John Deed
7. Judges on the small screen
1: Judge John Deed
8. Cameras in court 2: The UK
Supreme Court
9. Judges on the small screen 2:
The Judgment Summary Videos of the UK Supreme Court
10. Strictly Judge
Rinder: Judicial visibility and the industrial production of judicial
attention capital
11. After words on judicial
pictures
