Fritz Lang’s M – An Other among Us

Jacopo Martire*

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Abstract

M is one of the most celebrated movies by Fritz Lang. Examining the movie as a ‘jurisprudential text’, the present article will explore three interconnected problems: how in modern mass society, the legal gaze works as a device that both traces and tracks the subject within the multitude; how the presence of a radical Other within our midst is troublesome for law and can turn society against itself in autoimmunitary fashion; and, finally, how the legal subject is prevented from speaking precisely by the legal procedures that are supposed to make them vocal, superimposing the legal truth over the truth of the Other.
Original languageEnglish
JournalLaw Culture and the Humanities
Early online date6 Jan 2023
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Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 6 Jan 2023

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