Performing Law : Actors, Affects, Spaces

Name: Performing Law : Actors, Affects, Spaces
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Performing LawActors, Affects, Spaces\nAuthor(s): Peter Goodrich, Anna Jayne Kimmel, Bernadette Meyler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781009674249, 978-1009674249\nSynopsis\nThe words 'all rise' announce the appearance of the judge in the thespian space of the courtroom and trigger the beginning of that play we call a trial. The symbolically staged enactment of conflict in the form of litigation is exemplary of legal action, its liturgical and real effects. It establishes the roles and discourses, hierarchy and deference, atmospheres and affects that are to be taken up in the more general social stage of public life. Leading international scholars drawn from performance studies, theatre history, aesthetics, dance, film, history, and law provide critical analyses of the sites, dramas and stage directions to be found in the orchestration of the tragedies and comedies acted out in multiple forums .