Law, Lawyers and Justice: Through Australian Lenses

ISBN-13: 9781032237237 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 308 str.

Kim D. Weinert; Karen Crawley; Kieran Tranter

Opis

This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia’s distinctive contribution to global televisual culture.

Spis treści

Preface

List of Contributors

Part I The unsettled law and justice of Australia

Chapter 1 Australian lenses on law, lawyers and justice

Kim D. Weinert, Karen Crawley and Kieran Tranter

Chapter 2 Crime drama and national identity on Australian television, 1960–2019

Cassandra Sharp

Chapter 3 Whose country? Colonialism and the rule of law in Sweet Country and Charlie’s Country

Jack Quirk and Julian R. Murphy

Chapter 4 Taking a lens to the chase in Australian settler state colonialism

Thalia Anthony and Kieran Tranter

Chapter 5 Vilification, vigilantism and violence: troubling social media in Australia

Chris Cunneen and Sophie Russell

Chapter 6 Picnic at Hanging Rock: Coming of age as a girl in the Gothic colonial institution

Penny Crofts and Honni van Rijswijk

Chapter 7 Haunted colonialism: space, place and colonialism in The Babadook

Pauline Klippmark

Chapter 8 Being engaged in colonial critique by Mojo Juju's 'Native Tongue'

Kirsty Duncanson

Part II Australian gendered identities and law

Chapter Nine Rake and Rumpole – mavericks for justice: purity and impurity in legal professionalism

John Flood

Chapter 10 Cleaver Greene: the legal larrikin on Australian screens

Lili Pâquet

Chapter 11 Eyes wide shut: homosociality, justice and male rape through an Australian lens

Bruce Baer Arnold

Chapter 12 Romper Stomper: a critique of neoliberalism in Australia

Kim D. Weinert

Chapter 13 Justice at the end of Fury Road

Kieran Tranter

Chapter 14 Going bunta on Western law: violent jurisdictions, melodrama and the Australian carceral imaginary in Wentworth

Laura Joseph and Honni van Rijswijk

O autorze

Kim D. Weinert is a PhD candidate at Griffith Law School, Griffith University.

Karen Crawley is a senior lecturer at Griffith Law School, Griffith University.

Kieran Tranter is Chair of Law, Technology and Future in the School of Law, Queensland University of Technology.