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Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity


en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 dec 2018
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498572903
ISBN-10: 1498572901
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethnicity, Gender and Diversity on TV in Context Peter Robson and Jennifer L. Schulz Chapter 2 Brazil: Dramas of Televisual Justice Pedro Fortes and Germano Schwartz Chapter 3 Britain: The Justice System on TV Peter Robson Chapter 4 Canada: Women, People of Colour & Diversity on Top Law Shows Jennifer L. Schulz Chapter 5 Germany: Diversity on its Way Franziska Stürmer Chapter 6 Greece: TV Crime Dramas and Some Reflections on Gender and Race Nickos Myrtou, Stamatis Poulakidakos, and Olga Derzioti Chapter 7 Poland: Polish Productions about Polish Problems Zofia Zawadzka Chapter 8 Switzerland: Diversity as a Means of Seduction Lukas Musumeci and Fabian Odermatt Chapter 9 United States: Some Representations of Ethnicity, Gender, and Diversity on Law-Related TV Series Christine A. Corcos Appendix Alphabetical Summary of Television Shows

Descriere

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.