Honourable Mention, Penny Pether Prize: A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema

We are delighted to share the news that our author Assoc Prof Tim Peters (USC) was awarded an Honourable Mention, Penny Pether Prize, for his monograph, A Theological Jurisprudence of Speculative Cinema: Superheroes, Science Fictions and Fantasies of Modern Law.

Through close readings of a range of popular Hollywood speculative fiction films, Timothy Peters explores how fictional worlds, particularly those that ‘make strange’ the world of the viewer, can render visible and make explicit the otherwise opaque theologies of modern law. He illustrates that speculative cinema’s genres of estrangement provide a way for us to see and engage the theological concepts of modern law in our era of late capitalism, global empire and the crises of neoliberalism.

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