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Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity

Law and Justice on TV
Buch | Softcover
204 Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7292-7 (ISBN)
CHF 64,55 inkl. MwSt
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.
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.

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.

Chapter 1Introduction: Ethnicity, Gender and Diversity on TV in Context

Peter Robson and Jennifer L. Schulz



Chapter 2Brazil: Dramas of Televisual Justice

Pedro Fortes and Germano Schwartz



Chapter 3Britain: The Justice System on TV

Peter Robson



Chapter 4Canada: Women, People of Colour & Diversity on Top Law Shows

Jennifer L. Schulz



Chapter 5Germany: Diversity on its Way

Franziska Stürmer



Chapter 6Greece: TV Crime Dramas and Some Reflections on Gender and Race

Nickos Myrtou, Stamatis Poulakidakos, and Olga Derzioti



Chapter 7Poland: Polish Productions about Polish Problems

Zofia Zawadzka



Chapter 8Switzerland: Diversity as a Means of Seduction

Lukas Musumeci and Fabian Odermatt



Chapter 9United States: Some Representations of Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity on Law-Related TV Series

Christine A. Corcos



AppendixAlphabetical Summary of Television Shows

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Christine A. Corcos, Olga Derzioti, Pedro Fortes
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 219 mm
Gewicht 313 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Medienrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4985-7292-8 / 1498572928
ISBN-13 978-1-4985-7292-7 / 9781498572927
Zustand Neuware
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