Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema

Mónica López Lerma is Associate Professor of Spanish and Humanities at Reed College. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and a Graduate Certificate in Film Studies from the University of Michigan. She is the co-editor of Rancière and Law (Routledge, 2018). She was editor-in-chief of No-Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice from 2012 to 2017.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Sensing Justice 1. Framing Aesthetics: Witnessing Francoism in Pan’s Labyrinth An Aesthetic Approach to Human Rights CinemaViewers as WitnessesVidal: Franco’s "Politics of Revenge"Mercedes: The "Heroic Memory" of the ResistanceOfelia: The Two Worlds and the Vigilant ImaginationConclusion: The Return2. Campy Performances: Queering Law in High Heels Postmodern Re-ImaginingsThe Persecution of the LGBTQ people under FrancoThe Significance of the Performance for the ViewerLaw as Mother: Ethics and Justice of CareLaw as Performance: Ethics and Justice of AlterityJudging Law, Performing JusticeCinematic Judgment: Ethics of ResponseTruth and JusticeCamp Aesthetics: Law as Queer Performance3. Dissensus in the Community: Disrupting Neoliberal Affects in La Comunidad Spain and the Neoliberal "Politics of Consensus"The Regime of the All-VisibleJulia and the Consumer SocietyThe Community of Neighbors and the politics of ConsensusCharlie’s DissensusCharlie and Julia: A New Community?4. The Sound of Protest: Acousmatic Resistance in El Método The Grönholm Method: Beyond PanopticismThe Split Screen: Framing the Space of the Visible The Acousmatic Sound of Protest 5. Surveilling Terror: Post-Western Topographies in No Rest for the Wicked Infinite Justice and the Ethical TurnThe Media and the Securitization of SpaceTrinidad and the Politics of the Post-WesternJudge Chacón and the Topography of the Possible6. Policing the City: Haptic Visuality in Grupo 7 Mapping the City: The Production of SpaceThe Right to the CityThe Construction of the Urban Space as ResistanceConclusion: Law and SpaceConclusionBibliography

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