Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema

Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema, Volume 1, by Mónica López Lerma, offers a rigorous examination of how aesthetic frames shape the sensory perception of law and justice in twenty-first-century Spain. This scholarly work moves beyond traditional narrative analysis to investigate how film mediates the embodied experiences of legal and ethical judgments. By engaging with legal theory, film studies, and aesthetics, the text explores how specific cinematic frames privilege or downgrade certain senses to construct unique political subjects.

The book provides a close analysis of influential contemporary Spanish films, including Pan's Labyrinth, High Heels, Common Wealth, The Method, No Rest for the Wicked, and Unit 7. These case studies illustrate how cinema challenges established perceptions of jurisprudence and reconfigures the multisensory nature of justice. As a significant contribution to film history and criticism, Sensing Justice through Contemporary Spanish Cinema, Volume 1, bridges the gap between political science and the performing arts.