Natural Law and Vengeance: Jurisprudence on the Streets of Gotham

Giddens, Thomas

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“…Under that makeup, just like postmodernity, is an unidentifiable, fluid and contagious madness. And Batman, as T. Giddens (2015, p. 771) states, is only “human” and has no special powers other than his physical and mental abilities and enormous wealth.…”

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“…He is a “modern” protector in every sense, and what will enable him to obtain real justice is not some divine judgment or supernatural power, but his ability for logical reasoning. According to T. Giddens (2015, p. 771), “Batman needs to be right, and he seeks his answers through an unfailing deployment of rational logic, otherwise, his symbolic functions and the ideals he strives to uphold will fail,” making it impossible for Batman to understand the anarchy the Joker wants to unleash.…”

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Constructing and Deconstructing the Modern Hero in The Dark Knight Trilogy

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2022

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This article aims to reveal the various representations of modernity and postmodernity in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Across all three movies, it is asserted that Batman’s values correspond to modernity specifically in terms of his self-reflexive construction of the hero persona and his relationship with Gotham city. Furthermore, the way in which the villains confront Batman in a deconstructionist manner corresponds to the postmodern critique of modern values and constructs. What continues to make Batman a hero are precisely said to be his efforts and belief in modern values, both in his personal and social construction, despite facing endless accusations throughout the movies.

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Constructing and Deconstructing the Modern Hero in The Dark Knight Trilogy

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“…Thus, Gotham City looks for heroes who can ensure extra‐legal justice in the streets. In this regard, “this vision of justice is a protective one, with Batman existing as a guardian—a force for resistance against the corruption of the state and the failures of the legal system” (Giddens 766).…”

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Global Cities and Organized Crime: The Shifting Urban Landscape of Gotham

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2019

The J of Popular Culture

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“…In psychoanalysis, the unconscious is generally understood to be made up of 36 Goodrich (1995) p 54. 37 Although typically retributive, Batman's justice can also be seen to be one of protection: see Giddens (2014)…”

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Navigating the looking glass: severing the lawyer's head inArkham Asylum

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2015

Griffith Law Review

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I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity. 1 Defying the Threshold It is perhaps trite to observe, but no less evident, that law does not operate or exist in a vacuum. The manifold ways in which legality and culture intertwine can directly inform our understandings of law and its status in contemporary life. 2 Cultural legal studies is about exploring this world outside traditional law and doctrine: moving beyond the legal text and wallowing in the rich diversity of the worlds of human culture, narrative, and art. Indeed, it is asserted that it is only by crossing the threshold at law's traditional limits, by venturing through the looking glass into law's epistemological hinterland, that these important cultural dimensions can be encountered, reflected upon, and interrogated. But this is no simple interdisciplinarity; cultural legal studies does not just involve taking aspects or insights from other disciplines and applying them to law. 3 Rather, in crossing law's cultural threshold we are challenging the very existence of that threshold. When we reject the limits of traditional legal texts, we not only challenge law's limits but also the forms in which law can appear. And in this expanded world we find multiple forms of law beyond the dry texts of statutes, judgments and policy documents. We find what William MacNeil might call a 'lex populi': a jurisprudential world of popular imagination and visual codes, diverse in its cultural 1 Morrison and McKean (2004) np. 2 See, for example, Goodrich (1990); MacNeil (2007); Manderson (2000); Sherwin (2000). 3 On interdisciplinarity generally see Nissani (1997), and in law Vick (2004). 2 dynamism, seething with the traces and hallmarks of legality. 4 But this 'other world' is also one of rich humanity and aesthetic experience, 5 of the complex human realities that dwell beyond the limits of law's rational order. 6 In entering the looking glass of cultural legal studies, in tumbling down the legal rabbit hole, we are discovering that we have not crossed any boundaries at all. It turns out that, after all, law was always bigger than we had thoughtand bigger than traditional legal study was able to think. It is to this defiance of law's cultural threshold that this article is dedicated-to the crossing of the boundary and the discovery of its non-existence. In examining this boundary navigation, there are two tools that are of particular importance and that can help us not only understand what is happening when we partake in cultural legal studies, but also feel the benefits of an expanded legal horizon. Our first tool is psychoanalysis. There is a strong connection between the traditional boundaries of law and the limits of rationality; the blackletter orthodoxy of yesteryear may have receded significantly, 7 but the priorities of mainstream study and practice remain those allied with a particular rational order. 8 In crossing law's cultural threshold we are not only...

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Natural Law and Vengeance: Jurisprudence on the Streets of Gotham

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Constructing and Deconstructing the Modern Hero in The Dark Knight Trilogy

Constructing and Deconstructing the Modern Hero in The Dark Knight Trilogy

Global Cities and Organized Crime: The Shifting Urban Landscape of Gotham

Navigating the looking glass: severing the lawyer's head inArkham Asylum

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