An aesthetics of law and culture : text, images, screens / special volume editors: Andrew T. Kenyon, Peter D. Rush.

"Almost all the chapters in this book emerged from the 11th International Conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alter egos : the mise-en-scène of law and aesthetics / Peter D. Rush and Andrew T. Kenyon. Crime scenes : sexuality and representation. Exhibiting the hymen : the blank page between law and literature / Nina Philadelphoff-Puren -- "It forced me to open more than I could bear" : H.A.D., paedophilia, and the discursive limits of the male heterosexual body / Ben Golder -- Arresting images/fugitive testimony : the resistant photography of Evergon / Derek Dalton. Sites unsaid : testimony, image, genre. The trial : elements of a legal assemblage of desire / Edward Mussawir -- Character evidence and the literature of the Theophrastan character : a phenomenology of testimony / Michael FitzGerald -- Injury as melodrama / Samantha Hardy -- Graven images : "The Hart Island Project" / Rebecca Scott Bray. (Post)colonial appropriations. Awash in a tide of history : "responsibility" for cultural violence--A comparative analysis of Nulyrimma and Voss / Lee Godden -- Cartography, property and the aesthetics of place : mapping native title in Australia / Alexander Reilly -- gods and humans / Nasser Hussain. Screen culture : sovereignty, cinema and law. Unworking death in "Unforgiven" : law, ethos, violence / Thomas L. Dumm -- Sovereign contempt / Peter J. Hutchings -- One Recht to rule them all! Law's empire in the age of empire / William MacNeil.