Journal article
Unbalancing Justice: Overcoming the Limits of the Law in Batman Begins
Griffith Law Review, Vol.16(1), pp.247-270
2007
Abstract
From Star Trek to Star Wars, popular culture is replete with images and signs of what might be called theological bad infinity - that is, a law of endless binarism, of recurrent dualities of good and evil, the one (Anakin Skywalker) turning into the other (Darth Vader). I want to interrupt this disseminatory flow, in order to investigate how this essentially pagan cosmology - of replicating balance, of laws symbolic harmony - is challenged, even undone, by an alternative, radical Christian theology as embodied in the figure of Batman-as-Christological type. In so doing, I will use popular culture (specifically Batman Begins) to propound a theology, as well as legality, of the Real, drawing upon such sources as Slavoj i ek, Alain Badiou, and Joseph Campbell.
Details
- Title
- Unbalancing Justice: Overcoming the Limits of the Law in Batman Begins
- Authors
- Tim Peters (Author) - Griffith University
- Publication details
- Griffith Law Review, Vol.16(1), pp.247-270
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Australasia
- Date published
- 2007
- DOI
- 10.1080/10383441.2007.10854590
- ISSN
- 1038-3441
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2007 Griffith University. Reproduced with permission from the publisher and copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450330502621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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