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Journal article
Daredevil as Legal Emblem
Law, Technology and Humans, Vol.2(2), pp.198-226
2020
Abstract
This article draws together two trajectories of legal scholarship: the turn to the visual in legal studies and the emergence of the subfield of law and comics, or ‘graphic justice’. It does this via an analysis of superhero comics as fitting within a particular genealogy of the ius imaginum, or law of images. This is not to argue simply that superhero comics are dominated by narratives of law, justice and legality—they are—but rather that the very theatrical figure of the superhero and its encompassing of a dual persona is a presentation of a particular political theology of the image. The article analyses the way in which this political theology is rendered visible in Charles Soule’s Daredevil: Back in Black, highlighting the image of the superhero and its connection to both sovereignty and the biopolitics of personhood.
Details
- Title
- Daredevil as Legal Emblem
- Authors
- Timothy Peters (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Publication details
- Law, Technology and Humans, Vol.2(2), pp.198-226
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.5204/lthj.1656
- ISSN
- 2652-4074
- Copyright note
- Except where otherwise noted, content in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. As an open access journal, articles are free to use with proper attribution.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99489406302621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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