Establishing the medium of graphic fiction as a critical
resource for interdisciplinary legal studies, this collection is
the first to address the intersection of comics and law. Graphic
fiction has gained enormous cultural capital and academic interest
over recent years. Comics-inspired films fill our cinemas and
superhero merchandise fills the shelves of supermarkets. In short,
our culture is suffused with a comic-book aesthetic: as, for
example, the Occupy movement appropriates the mask of V, from the
comic work "V for Vendetta"; and, tragically, as James Holmes s
murderous rampage through a Colorado movie theatre, seemingly sees
him styling himself after Batman s arch-nemesis, the Joker. From
mass entertainment and consumerism to political activism and
violence, we are surrounded by emanations of graphic storytelling.
Meanwhile, the rise of academic disciplines such as comics studies
demonstrates that the medium contains much more depth than the
common assumption of its simplicity and juvenility might suggest."
"Against this background, comics offer an important resource for
making sense of the contemporary place and role of law. Whether in
their representations of lawyers and the legal system, their
dystopian imaginations, their treatment of issues of justice and
social order, or in their superheroic investment in the protection
of the innocent and the punishment or capture of those who would
harm them, like other narrative forms literature, film, theatre
graphic fiction explores and expresses human life in all its
social, moral and legal complexity. In the context of a now well
established interest in cultural legal studies, this book showcases
the critical potential of comics and graphic fiction as a resource
for interdisciplinary legal studies and legal theory. "
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