Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity (eBook)

Law and Justice on TV

Peter Robson, Jennifer L. Schulz (Herausgeber)

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2020
178 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7291-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This collection analyzes the most popular law and justice TV series in eight different countries, paying particular attention to ethnicity, gender, and diversity. It is the first transnational, empirical look at diversity on legal-themed TV series and thus provides an important link between law, TV, and real life.

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Television and streamed series that viewers watch on their TVs, computers, phones, and tablets are a crucial part of popular culture They have an influence on viewers and on law. People acquire values, behaviors, and stereotypes, both positive and negative, from television shows, which are relevant to people's acquisition of beliefs and to the development of law.. In this book, readers will find the first transnational, empirical look at ethnicity, gender, and diversity on legally-themed TV shows. Scholars determine the three most watched legally-themed shows in Brazil, Britain, Canada, Germany, Greece, Poland, Switzerland and the United States and then examine gender, age, ability, ethnicity, race, class, sexual orientation and nationality in those shows and countries. As such, this book provides an important link between law, TV, and what is going on in real life.

Autor

Peter Robson is solicitor and judge in the Courts and Tribunals service dealing with disability issues and is professor of social welfare law at the University of Strathclyde.Jennifer L. Schulz is associate professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, and fellow of the Winkler Institute for Dispute Resolution at Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto.

Inhalt

Chapter 1Introduction: Ethnicity, Gender and Diversity on TV in ContextPeter Robson and Jennifer L. SchulzChapter 2Brazil: Dramas of Televisual JusticePedro Fortes and Germano Schwartz Chapter 3Britain: The Justice System on TVPeter RobsonChapter 4Canada: Women, People of Colour & Diversity on Top Law ShowsJennifer L. SchulzChapter 5Germany: Diversity on its WayFranziska StürmerChapter 6Greece: TV Crime Dramas and Some Reflections on Gender and RaceNickos Myrtou, Stamatis Poulakidakos, and Olga DerziotiChapter 7Poland: Polish Productions about Polish ProblemsZofia ZawadzkaChapter 8Switzerland: Diversity as a Means of SeductionLukas Musumeci and Fabian OdermattChapter 9United States: Some Representations of Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity on Law-Related TV SeriesChristine A. CorcosAppendixAlphabetical Summary of Television Shows

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2020
• Co-Autor: Christine A. Corcos, Germano Schwartz, Franziska Sturmer, Zofia Zawadzka, Olga Derzioti, Pedro Fortes, Lukas Musumeci, Nickos Myrtou, Fabian Odermatt, Stamatis Poulakidakos, Peter Robson, Jennifer L. Schulz
• Zusatzinfo: 3 Illustrations including: - 3 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medienrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Crime TV • Cultural Studies • Diversity • Empirical Study • Ethnicity • Film Studies • Genre TV • Law Studies • Political Studies • Pop culture • popular culture • Television • The media • TV
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7291-X / 149857291X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7291-0 / 9781498572910