Law, Lawyers and Justice: Through Australian Lenses

Synopsis

This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia’s distinctive contribution to global televisual culture. Australian popular culture has created a lasting legacy – for good or bad – of representations of law, lawyers and justice ‘down under’. Within films and television of striking landscapes, peopled with heroes, antiheroes, survivors and jokers, there is a fixation on law, conflicts between legal orders, brutal violence and survival. Deeply compromised by the ongoing violence against the lives and laws of First Nation Australians, Australian film and television has sharply illuminated what it means to live with a ‘rule of law’ that rules with a legacy, and a reality, of deep injustice. This book is the first to bring together scholars to reflect on, and critically engage with, the representations and global implications of law, lawyers and justice captured through the lenses of Australian film, television and social media. Exploring how distinctively Australian lenses capture uniquely Australian images and narratives, the book nevertheless engages these in order to provide broader insights into the contemporary translations and transmogrifications of law and justice.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000048032

Related ISBNs:

9780429288128, 9780367210458, 9780367210458

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/20/20

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Kim D. Weinert, Karen Crawley and Kieran Tranter

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Kim D Weinert

Edited by:

Karen Crawley

Edited by:

Kieran Tranter