Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Contributors; Introduction: Imagining law, justice, and order in real and fictional ill cities; 1 The narratives of justice, order, and morality in our cities; Part I: Imagining ill cities: their treatments under various movie scenarios; Part II: Visualizing the forms of ill cities; Cities as living organisms; References; PART I: Imagining ill cities: their treatments under various movie scenarios

1. The dark side of cleanliness and order: Visual renderings of oppression in dystopian science fiction cinema1 Once upon a time, (not so) far away: another space in utopia/dystopia; 2 Spatializations of dystopia; 3 Dirt and cleanliness as spatial metaphors of dis/order; 4 Conclusions: away from the elsewhere?; References; 2. 'Wanna fight?': utopia-dystopia in Nicolas Winding Refn's recent cinema; 1 The city as utopia-dystopia; 2 Winding Refn's slaughterhouse ethics; Filmography; References; 3. The dysfunctional town and the social contract: Figures of violence in the liberal legal imaginary

1 Introduction2 From freedom to subjection: the town's logic of exchange; 3 Liberal values of equality and free choice; 4 The aesthetics of injustice; 5 The language of abstraction; 6 Centrality of pain to contract moral authority in Dogville; 7 Violence, justice, and law; 8 Justice as allegory, justice in history; References; 4. Cities as ill bodies? Cure them with a commons-oriented approach; 1 Introduction; 2 Case history; 3 Medication; 4 A new form of urban commons?; 5 Outlook; References; 5. Cities that degrade: Ken Loach on social ills; 1 Introduction; 2 Theoretical concepts

3 Cities that degrade: the underlining themes4 Conclusion; References; PART II: Visualizing the forms of ill cities; 6. The city armed to the teeth: Bending the law in the Italian crime movies tradition; References; 7. Ill cities in their perfect "form": A rereading of Pier Paolo Pasolini; 1 Introduction; 2 The background of the documentary of Pasolini and the form of the cities; 3 The form of the cities and the time; 4 Remarks on Pasolini and the form of the city; 5 Site-oriented urbanism: Pasolini as a precursor; 6 Conclusions; References

8. The city as ill body: Visual representations of urban landscapes in the Global South1 Introduction; 2 Visualizing the urban landscape in the Global South; 3 The city as ill body; References; 9. Bodies, monuments, and spaces in between: Encountering spatialities in a film by Jonathan Perel; 1 Introduction; 2 17 Monumentos; 3 Theorizing spatialities; 4 Encountering spatialities; 5 Conclusion; References; Index

This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city. It presents a range of approaches to view the ill city through cinematic and televisual characterization in urban frameworks, political contexts, and cultural settings. Each chapter deconstructs the meaning of urban space as public space while critically generating a focus on order and justice, exploring issues such as state disorder, lawlessness, and revenge. The approach presents a careful balance between theory and application. The original and novel ideas presented in this book will be essential reading for those interested in the presentation of law and place in cultural texts such as film.

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