Persuasive Visions: Film and Memory

Silbey, Jessica M.

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“…Hence, seeing a homeless person tells us something about the power of property; likewise, the tears shed in Family Court are "law-related tears" (Brigham, 2009a: 386). (Inter)legality occurs when we park the car or leave our umbrella in a public place (Ewick and Silbey, 1998: 337), choose, buy and prepare our food (Meneses, 2016), in the ways we dress (Watt, 2013), when we go see a movie (Silbey, 2012), when odors enter our nostrils (Branco and Mohr, 2015), when songs are played in a concert hall or in football stadiums, and even in the courtroom (Grant, forthcoming;Parker, 2015b), and it is also found on the walls and façades of buildings (Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, 2013).…”

Section: Interlegality In Everyday Lifementioning

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Intersections in Law, Culture and the Humanities*

Branco¹,

Izzo²

2017

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Ever more often, researchers and scholars endeavor to situate law in its social, political, historical and cultural contexts. At the same time, there is a need to invest law and the social sciences with new roles and resources. We thus propose to look for the many intersections of law, culture and the humanities by presenting four topical preoccupations: (1) interlegality in everyday life; (2) the synesthesia of law; (3) material socio-legal studies; and (4) interactive ecologies of knowledges and methodologies. This will constitute part one of the paper. Parts two and three will look at two particular and very recent interdisciplinary relationships: those between law and music and between law and food. We thus propose it would be appropriate to expose students, learners and practitioners of all kinds to the difference that an understanding of the links between law, culture and the humanities makes.

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Section: Interlegality In Everyday Lifementioning

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Intersections in Law, Culture and the Humanities*

Branco¹,

Izzo²

2017

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Victim Impact Statements, New Media Technologies, and the Classical Rhetoric of Sincerity

Butler¹

2013

University of Toronto Quarterly

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Long a concern for their interjection of emotional appeals into the sentencing process, victim impact statements (VISs) have recently become even more worrisome to some critics, who see in the growing availability of sophisticated video-editing technology the capacity for even unskilled users to construct testimony in ways that corrupt rather than enable reasoned judgment. Drawing upon a combined analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court case Kelly v. California and classical rhetorical theory, I argue by contrast that, especially in death penalty cases, a jury’s demand for authenticity in performance mitigates the potential impact of such technology precisely because the cultural construction of emotive authenticity requires an outpouring of feeling whose very lack of control testifies to its genuineness. As an artistic and compositional techne, the capacity of new media technologies to evoke, seemingly effortlessly, complex representations of emotional states thus contains within itself a fundamental limitation on its power. Recognizing the importance of authenticity and sincerity also reveals a key element of why the introduction of a VIS remains an attractive option for the prosecution, for in allowing the introduction of a VIS the state secures for itself a rhetoric of sincerity that as an institution it could not otherwise hope to wield.

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Persuasive Visions: Film and Memory

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Intersections in Law, Culture and the Humanities*

Intersections in Law, Culture and the Humanities*

Victim Impact Statements, New Media Technologies, and the Classical Rhetoric of Sincerity

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