Machine generated contents note: 14. Going bunta on Western law: violent jurisdictions, melodrama and the Australian carceral imaginary in Wentworth / 1. Australian lenses on law, lawyers and justice / Honni Van Rijswijk. 2. Crime drama and national identity on Australian television, 1960 -- 2019 / Cassandra Sharp -- 3. Whose country? Colonialism and the rule of law in Sweet Country and Charlie's Country / Julian R. Murphy -- 4. Taking a lens to the chase in Australian settler state colonialism / Kieran Tranter -- 5. Vilification, vigilantism and violence: troubling social media in Australia / Sophie Russell -- 6. Picnic at Hanging Rock: coming of age as a girl in the Gothic colonial institution / Honni Van Rijswijk -- 7. Haunted colonialism: space, place and colonialism in The Babadook / Pauline Klippmark -- 8. Being engaged in colonial critique by Mojo Juju's `Native Tongue' / Kirsty Duncanson -- pt. II Australian gendered identities and law -- 9. Rake and Rumpole -- mavericks for justice: purity and impurity in legal professionalism / John Flood -- 10. Cleaver Greene: the legal larrikin on Australian screens / Lili Paquet -- 11. Eyes wide shut: homosociality, justice and male rape through an Australian lens / Bruce Baer Arnold -- 12. Romper Stamper: a critique (if neoliberalism in Australia / Kim D. Weinert -- 13. Justice at the end of Fury Road / Kieran Tranter -- 14. Going bunta on Western law: violent jurisdictions, melodrama and the Australian carceral imaginary in Wentworth / Honni Van Rijswijk.
Summary:
"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, of 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 captures 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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