Images of Shame: Infamy, Defamation and the Ethics of oeconomia (1st edition.)

At the zone of intersection between imagery, law, and the economy, the defamatory image is charged with a particularly explosive significance.

Initially used as a judicial means of punishing debtors and other violators of contracts, defamatory images remain a vehicle for the denunciation and pejorative depiction of lawbreakers.

This volume discusses the "magical force?" exerted by defamatory imagery as well as the use of images in law.