ICYMI: Sherwin on Law's Enchantment: The Cinematic Jurisprudence of Krzysztof Kieslowski @RKSherwin @OxUniPress

ICYMI: Richard K. Sherwin, New York Law School, has published Law's Enchantment: The Cinematic Jurisprudence of Krzysztof Kieslowski in Law and Popular Culture (Michael Freeman, ed., Oxford University Press, 2005). Here is the abstract.

Mythos begets nomos. In myth begins the normative universe in which we live. Law emerges to maintain that universe, and to foreclose others. Law polices the normative reality through the official stories that it tells, for these are the stories whose meanings are backed by the force of the state. But law's stories are often shaped and informed by popular narratives from the culture at large. This shared process of narrative production, adaptation, and critique attests to law's deep entanglement in the meaning-making function of culture.

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