Ambivalence and the Spectatorship of Violence: Viewing Inglorious Bastards

Abstract

i Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation brings together leading scholars working at the intersection of law, representation, and visual culture. Its wager is that the cultural representations which hold us in their thrall – from Game of Thrones to The Dark Knight, The Oprah Winfrey Show to The Wire, war photography to Inuit cinema – not only represent law, but constitute the ocular and spectacular fabric of legality itself. The essays in this volume explore the economies of looking, questions of genre that determine audience response, the affective perspective of the spectator, and their psychic investments, as modes of representational legality in which law is performed or e..