How Long to Read Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial

How Long Does it Take to Read Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial by Agata Fijalkowski

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials. The dispensation of justice during communist rule in Albania, East Germany, and Poland was reliant on legal propaganda, making the visual a fundamental part of the legitimacy of the law. Analysing photographs of trials, this book examines how this message was conveyed to audiences watching and participating in the spectacle of show trials. The book traces how this use of the visual was exported from the Soviet Union and imposed upon its satellite states in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. It shows how the legal actors and political authorities embraced new photographic technologies to advance their legal propaganda and legal photography. Drawing on contemporary theoretical work in the area, the book then challenges straightforward accounts of the relationship between law and the visual, critically engaging entrenched legal historical narratives, in relation to three different protagonists, to offer the possibility of reclaiming and rewriting past accounts. As its analysis demonstrates, the power of images can also be subversive; and, as such, the cases it addresses contribute to the discourse on visual epistemology and open onto contemporary questions about law and its inherent performativity. This original and insightful engagement with the relationship between law and the visual will appeal to legal and cultural theorists, as well as those with more specific interests in Stalinism, and in Central, East, and Southeast European history.

How long is Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial?

Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial by Agata Fijalkowski is 172 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.

This makes it 58% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial aloud.

What Reading Level is Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial?

Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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