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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.
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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 TranterChapter 2 Crime drama and national identity on Australian television, 1960-2019
Cassandra SharpChapter 3 Whose country? Colonialism and the rule of law in
Sweet Country and
Charlie's CountryJack Quirk and Julian R. MurphyChapter 4 Taking a lens to the chase in Australian settler state colonialism
Thalia Anthony and Kieran TranterChapter 5 Vilification, vigilantism and violence: troubling social media in Australia
Chris Cunneen and Sophie RussellChapter 6
Picnic at Hanging Rock: Coming of age as a girl in the Gothic colonial institution
Penny Crofts and Honni van RijswijkChapter 7 Haunted colonialism: space, place and colonialism in
The BabadookPauline KlippmarkChapter 8 Being engaged in colonial critique by Mojo Juju's 'Native Tongue'
Kirsty DuncansonPart II Australian gendered identities and lawChapter Nine Rake and Rumpole - mavericks for justice: purity and impurity in legal professionalism
John FloodChapter 10 Cleaver Greene: the legal larrikin on Australian screens
Lili PâquetChapter 11 Eyes wide shut: homosociality, justice and male rape through an Australian lens
Bruce Baer ArnoldChapter 12
Romper Stomper: a critique of neoliberalism in Australia
Kim D. WeinertChapter 13 Justice at the end of
Fury RoadKieran TranterChapter 14 Going bunta on Western law: violent jurisdictions, melodrama and the Australian carceral imaginary in
WentworthLaura Joseph and Honni van Rijswijk
Info autore
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.
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This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia’s distinctive contribution to global televisual culture.
