Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema

Timothy D Peters is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Society, University of the Sunshine Coast, an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Law Futures Centre, Griffith University and President of the Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia. He is co-editor (with Dr Karen Crawley) of Envisioning Legality: Law, Culture and Representation (Routledge, 2018) and the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (project number DE200100881) funded by the Australian Government, examining ‘New Approaches to Corporate Legality: Beyond Neoliberal Governance’.

• Prologue: Reading the Law ‘Made Strange’From Shyamalan’s Unbreakable to Snyder’s Man of Steel: Comic Book Mythology on Screen and the Co-Implication of Good and EvilThe Force of/as Modern Law: Justice, Order and the Secular Theology of Star WarsThe Superhero ‘Made Strange’: A Christological Reading of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark KnightA Tale of Two Gothams: Revolution, Sacrifice and the Rule of Law in The Dark Knight RisesPauline Science Fiction: Alex Proyas’ I, Robot, Universalism and Love Beyond the LawEscaping the Bureaucratisation of Destiny: Law, Theology and Freedom in George Nolfi’s The Adjustment Bureau‘If more people valued home above gold this world would be a merrier place’: Hospitality, Gift-Exchange and the Theological Jurisprudence of JRR Tolkien’s and Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit