Pictorial law : modern law and the power of pictures / by Volker Boehme-Nessler.

Berlin : Springer, c2011.

76862

Digital media -- Law and legislation.

Pictures -- Law and legislation.

Culture and law.

1. Caught between technophilia and technophobia : culture, technology and the law

2. Cultural technology and the law : the example of writing

3. The power of images

4. The law and images : a difficult relationship

5. Fuzzy communication : composition and performance of the law

6. Understanding images : the interpretation of visual legal communication

7. Visual law : the law as drama?

8. Words and images in the law : looking for the lost balance.

Translated from German by Martina Birkhoff and Lindsay Gasser.

"Original German edition published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2009"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9783642118883

ix, 226 p. ; 24 cm