Jason Bainbridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 827260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Bainbridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Bainbridge |
| SIGNATURE | BAINBRIDGE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swinburne University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8534-7649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
If it's not good TV, believe me, it's not for a jury’
Using Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel Gone Girl as a starting point, this paper explores the nexus between law and media by analysing how three television series about law self-reflexively explore the media saturation of legal practice. CSI, Murder One and Broadchurch each represent what such interrelations with media might mean for legal processes and participants and how these subsequently re-shape the spaces in which law and media are articulated. …
“Gotta Catch ‘Em All!”
The Pokémon franchise is over seventeen years old, a networked assemblage of heterogeneous elements (manga, gaming, toys, anime) that is also constitutive of new knowledges around both consumerism and commodification. This paper explores how all of the elements of this franchise, from the brand, to the various media platforms, to the Pokémon trainers, to the pocket monsters themselves (the non-human objects) as well as the designers and the consu…
It is a Pokémon world’
Originating in 1996, Pokémon has become the second most successful game-based franchise in the world and arguably one of the best-known examples of transmedia storytelling in youth media today. Based around creator Satoshi Tajiri’s love of insect collecting, Pokémon imagines a world where wild creatures exist to be collected, trained and battle with one another. Such an ideology, simultaneously embracing both the conservation and consumption of n…
Ganging up in the entrepreneurial city
Underbelly (2008), Screentime's $10.4 million, thirteen-part dramatization of the so-called ‘Gangland Wars’ from 1995 to 2004, tracing the rise and fall of career criminal Carl Williams, showcases a Melbourne largely unseen on the screen. That so much of Underbelly is shot on location means that its sets are the real spaces and places of Melbourne, overlaid with the scripted drama of what may have occurred there. This provides a new way of mappin…
Spider-Man, the question and the meta-zone
The idea of the superhero as justice figure has been well rehearsed in the literature around the intersections between superheroes and the law. This relationship has also informed superhero comics themselves – going all the way back to Superman’s debut in Action Comics 1 (June 1938). As DC President Paul Levitz says of the development of the superhero: ‘There was an enormous desire to see social justice, a rectifying of corruption. Superman was a…
Murder, Incest and Damn Fine Coffee’
Despite the vast amount of critical and academic literature on the television series Twin Peaks, relatively little attention has been paid to its narrative and, more particularly, its treatment of incest. Yet this is where the series remains truly unique, even 20 years later, a popular culture, commercial, network television series that takes incest as its central narrative thread. In analysing the intertextual relationships between media and lit…
Madman Entertainment
This article is part of a larger research project looking at the role of Australian media companies in sustaining fan and Australian investment in global popular culture. This article focuses on Madman Entertainment - one of the most successful DVD and merchandise distribution companies in Australia and the leading distributor of anime, with over 90 per cent of the market share. The article explores the ways in which Madman has become a part of t…
Fully articulated
The action figure is a relatively recent invention, a product of the 1960s, urbanization and a gendered re-inscription of girls' dolls, making them suitable for masculine consumption and play. Yet despite the importance of the action figure in popular culture, both as a million dollar entertainment industry in their own right and as the basis for media convergence and filmic adaptation (as most recently confirmed with the box-office success of Tr…
And here’s the news’
Since television's inception, newsreaders have been a central part of the audience's lives. They encourage us to invite them into the privacy of our homes with promises of consistency, predictability and trustworthiness contributing to the 'mythology of transparency' (Bignell and Orlebar, 2008: 134) that television news presents. They offer a familiar face amidst ever-changing flows of new information and they are some of the most well-known and …
The Victorian Bushfires and Extreme Weather Events
The 2009 ‘Black Saturday’ Victorian bushfires claimed the lives of 173 people and have become known as the worst fire event in Australian history. Victoria has been at the centre of two other significant Australian fire disasters – ‘Black Friday’ in 1939 and the 1983 ‘Ash Wednesday’ fires in south-eastern Australia that claimed the lives of 47 people in Victoria. As media scholar and commentator Michael Gawenda has noted, the media not only repor…
Communicating Catastrophe
In the crucible of a major bushfire crisis, such as Victoria's devastating 2009 Black Saturday fires, media not only function as sources of information but also help to construct events through discourses that include disaster and blame. While local radio is often the 'go to' source for bushfire information, it is in newspapers that these discourses play out most extensively. In this article, we use Black Saturday as a case study, focusing on the…
The bodies of law
This article considers the way lawyers are represented in American television legal series. Countering the view that their focus on lawyers' theatrics makes these texts unworthy of study, this article argues that it is this very focus on physicality, and more particularly the performing bodies of these lawyers, that makes these series so interesting and important. They offer us alternative ways of thinking about lawyers' functioning by making vis…
This is the Authority. This Planet is Under Our Protection” — An Exegesis of Superheroes' Interrogations of Law
This paper examines concepts of authority, law, and justice in the genre of superhero comics. Despite the common view that comic book superheroes do not warrant (and have not received) significant academic attention except as art form (rather than social/legal commentary), they do, in fact, present a locus in which visions of law and its relationship with society are played out with a degree of intellectual and jurisprudential sophistication. Thi…
Lawyers, Justice and the State
This article examines how the concept of 'law' is culturally defined through a semiotic analysis of some of the ways in which law is constructed in popular culture. The article goes on to map the changing signifier of law across a number of film and television series, from the heroic lawyer to the embodiment of the 'state', the police officer and the government agent. In each case, analysis is provided of how the change in signifier alters the co…
Rafferty's Rules
This paper explores the problems involved in representing the Australian legal system on film and television, how these problems are addressed, and what commentary these texts are making about the practice of law in Australia. It is suggested that the formal and dress requirements of the Australian legal system make the trial process a ritual based around the reification of the lawyer and the stigmatisation of the accused - in short, a degradatio…
Introduction—Popular Cultures and the Law
In Bristol, a breastfeeding mother is ejected from a pub on the grounds that she has brought a minor into a drinking establishment, and that a pub is no place for a 'proper' mother. In Austria, public strollers through the city square are confronted with the sight of supposed asylum seekers in a large container, and are asked to vote online, reality TV style, to evict the refugee of their choice from the country. In Queensland, legislators try to…
Going Down the Hole
For fourteen days, all of Australia and much of the world was focused on the rescue of two miners trapped underground in Beaconsfield, Tasmania. This article looks at the period from Todd Russell and Brant Webb's rescue up to and including Channel Nine's screening of an exclusive interview with the men on 21 May 2006. It analyses the ways in which Beaconsfield was reported-and the exclusive interview with the miners pursued-as a way of exploring …
Fully articulated
The action figure is a relatively recent invention, a product of the 1960s, urbanization and a gendered re-inscription of girls' dolls, making them suitable for masculine consumption and play. Yet despite the importance of the action figure in popular culture, both as a million dollar entertainment industry in their own right and as the basis for media convergence and filmic adaptation (as most recently confirmed with the box-office success of Tr…
This is the Authority. This Planet is Under Our Protection” — An Exegesis of Superheroes' Interrogations of Law
This paper examines concepts of authority, law, and justice in the genre of superhero comics. Despite the common view that comic book superheroes do not warrant (and have not received) significant academic attention except as art form (rather than social/legal commentary), they do, in fact, present a locus in which visions of law and its relationship with society are played out with a degree of intellectual and jurisprudential sophistication. Thi…
And here’s the news’
Since television's inception, newsreaders have been a central part of the audience's lives. They encourage us to invite them into the privacy of our homes with promises of consistency, predictability and trustworthiness contributing to the 'mythology of transparency' (Bignell and Orlebar, 2008: 134) that television news presents. They offer a familiar face amidst ever-changing flows of new information and they are some of the most well-known and …
Communicating Catastrophe
In the crucible of a major bushfire crisis, such as Victoria's devastating 2009 Black Saturday fires, media not only function as sources of information but also help to construct events through discourses that include disaster and blame. While local radio is often the 'go to' source for bushfire information, it is in newspapers that these discourses play out most extensively. In this article, we use Black Saturday as a case study, focusing on the…
Going Down the Hole
For fourteen days, all of Australia and much of the world was focused on the rescue of two miners trapped underground in Beaconsfield, Tasmania. This article looks at the period from Todd Russell and Brant Webb's rescue up to and including Channel Nine's screening of an exclusive interview with the men on 21 May 2006. It analyses the ways in which Beaconsfield was reported-and the exclusive interview with the miners pursued-as a way of exploring …
It is a Pokémon world’
Originating in 1996, Pokémon has become the second most successful game-based franchise in the world and arguably one of the best-known examples of transmedia storytelling in youth media today. Based around creator Satoshi Tajiri’s love of insect collecting, Pokémon imagines a world where wild creatures exist to be collected, trained and battle with one another. Such an ideology, simultaneously embracing both the conservation and consumption of n…
Murder, Incest and Damn Fine Coffee’
Despite the vast amount of critical and academic literature on the television series Twin Peaks, relatively little attention has been paid to its narrative and, more particularly, its treatment of incest. Yet this is where the series remains truly unique, even 20 years later, a popular culture, commercial, network television series that takes incest as its central narrative thread. In analysing the intertextual relationships between media and lit…
Going Down the Hole
For fourteen days, all of Australia and much of the world was focused on the rescue of two miners trapped underground in Beaconsfield, Tasmania. This article looks at the period from Todd Russell and Brant Webb's rescue up to and including Channel Nine's screening of an exclusive interview with the men on 21 May 2006. It analyses the ways in which Beaconsfield was reported-and the exclusive interview with the miners pursued-as a way of exploring …
Introduction—Popular Cultures and the Law
In Bristol, a breastfeeding mother is ejected from a pub on the grounds that she has brought a minor into a drinking establishment, and that a pub is no place for a 'proper' mother. In Austria, public strollers through the city square are confronted with the sight of supposed asylum seekers in a large container, and are asked to vote online, reality TV style, to evict the refugee of their choice from the country. In Queensland, legislators try to…
Lawyers, Justice and the State
This article examines how the concept of 'law' is culturally defined through a semiotic analysis of some of the ways in which law is constructed in popular culture. The article goes on to map the changing signifier of law across a number of film and television series, from the heroic lawyer to the embodiment of the 'state', the police officer and the government agent. In each case, analysis is provided of how the change in signifier alters the co…
Rafferty's Rules
This paper explores the problems involved in representing the Australian legal system on film and television, how these problems are addressed, and what commentary these texts are making about the practice of law in Australia. It is suggested that the formal and dress requirements of the Australian legal system make the trial process a ritual based around the reification of the lawyer and the stigmatisation of the accused - in short, a degradatio…
This is the Authority. This Planet is Under Our Protection” — An Exegesis of Superheroes' Interrogations of Law
This paper examines concepts of authority, law, and justice in the genre of superhero comics. Despite the common view that comic book superheroes do not warrant (and have not received) significant academic attention except as art form (rather than social/legal commentary), they do, in fact, present a locus in which visions of law and its relationship with society are played out with a degree of intellectual and jurisprudential sophistication. Thi…
The bodies of law
This article considers the way lawyers are represented in American television legal series. Countering the view that their focus on lawyers' theatrics makes these texts unworthy of study, this article argues that it is this very focus on physicality, and more particularly the performing bodies of these lawyers, that makes these series so interesting and important. They offer us alternative ways of thinking about lawyers' functioning by making vis…
Fully articulated
The action figure is a relatively recent invention, a product of the 1960s, urbanization and a gendered re-inscription of girls' dolls, making them suitable for masculine consumption and play. Yet despite the importance of the action figure in popular culture, both as a million dollar entertainment industry in their own right and as the basis for media convergence and filmic adaptation (as most recently confirmed with the box-office success of Tr…
And here’s the news’
Since television's inception, newsreaders have been a central part of the audience's lives. They encourage us to invite them into the privacy of our homes with promises of consistency, predictability and trustworthiness contributing to the 'mythology of transparency' (Bignell and Orlebar, 2008: 134) that television news presents. They offer a familiar face amidst ever-changing flows of new information and they are some of the most well-known and …
The Victorian Bushfires and Extreme Weather Events
The 2009 ‘Black Saturday’ Victorian bushfires claimed the lives of 173 people and have become known as the worst fire event in Australian history. Victoria has been at the centre of two other significant Australian fire disasters – ‘Black Friday’ in 1939 and the 1983 ‘Ash Wednesday’ fires in south-eastern Australia that claimed the lives of 47 people in Victoria. As media scholar and commentator Michael Gawenda has noted, the media not only repor…
Communicating Catastrophe
In the crucible of a major bushfire crisis, such as Victoria's devastating 2009 Black Saturday fires, media not only function as sources of information but also help to construct events through discourses that include disaster and blame. While local radio is often the 'go to' source for bushfire information, it is in newspapers that these discourses play out most extensively. In this article, we use Black Saturday as a case study, focusing on the…
Ganging up in the entrepreneurial city
Underbelly (2008), Screentime's $10.4 million, thirteen-part dramatization of the so-called ‘Gangland Wars’ from 1995 to 2004, tracing the rise and fall of career criminal Carl Williams, showcases a Melbourne largely unseen on the screen. That so much of Underbelly is shot on location means that its sets are the real spaces and places of Melbourne, overlaid with the scripted drama of what may have occurred there. This provides a new way of mappin…
Spider-Man, the question and the meta-zone
The idea of the superhero as justice figure has been well rehearsed in the literature around the intersections between superheroes and the law. This relationship has also informed superhero comics themselves – going all the way back to Superman’s debut in Action Comics 1 (June 1938). As DC President Paul Levitz says of the development of the superhero: ‘There was an enormous desire to see social justice, a rectifying of corruption. Superman was a…
Murder, Incest and Damn Fine Coffee’
Despite the vast amount of critical and academic literature on the television series Twin Peaks, relatively little attention has been paid to its narrative and, more particularly, its treatment of incest. Yet this is where the series remains truly unique, even 20 years later, a popular culture, commercial, network television series that takes incest as its central narrative thread. In analysing the intertextual relationships between media and lit…
Madman Entertainment
This article is part of a larger research project looking at the role of Australian media companies in sustaining fan and Australian investment in global popular culture. This article focuses on Madman Entertainment - one of the most successful DVD and merchandise distribution companies in Australia and the leading distributor of anime, with over 90 per cent of the market share. The article explores the ways in which Madman has become a part of t…
It is a Pokémon world’
Originating in 1996, Pokémon has become the second most successful game-based franchise in the world and arguably one of the best-known examples of transmedia storytelling in youth media today. Based around creator Satoshi Tajiri’s love of insect collecting, Pokémon imagines a world where wild creatures exist to be collected, trained and battle with one another. Such an ideology, simultaneously embracing both the conservation and consumption of n…
“Gotta Catch ‘Em All!”
The Pokémon franchise is over seventeen years old, a networked assemblage of heterogeneous elements (manga, gaming, toys, anime) that is also constitutive of new knowledges around both consumerism and commodification. This paper explores how all of the elements of this franchise, from the brand, to the various media platforms, to the Pokémon trainers, to the pocket monsters themselves (the non-human objects) as well as the designers and the consu…
If it's not good TV, believe me, it's not for a jury’
Using Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel Gone Girl as a starting point, this paper explores the nexus between law and media by analysing how three television series about law self-reflexively explore the media saturation of legal practice. CSI, Murder One and Broadchurch each represent what such interrelations with media might mean for legal processes and participants and how these subsequently re-shape the spaces in which law and media are articulated. …
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