Law, Lawyers and Justice: Through Australian Lenses by Kim D Weinert
This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia's distinctive contribution to global televisual culture.
This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia's distinctive contribution to global televisual culture.
This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia's distinctive contribution to global televisual culture.
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.
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 Paquet
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