Introduction: Law and War in Popular Culture
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Law and War in Popular Culture. ed. / Stefan Machura. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2024.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction: Law and War in Popular Culture
AU - Machura, Stefan
PY - 2024/8/14
Y1 - 2024/8/14
N2 - Popular culture in its best moments captures the public’s imagination of war and the role of law within it. While it can only approximate the brutal reality of war, there is the chance to infuse the audience with liberal ideas of the rule of law even under the most adverse conditions. After all, the response to seeing injustice is likely to favour better institutions, better rules, better servants of the law and better practices. But products of popular cultural can also veil severe abuses of power and mythologise living and dying in war. In this case, law can become void or an auxiliary to crime.
AB - Popular culture in its best moments captures the public’s imagination of war and the role of law within it. While it can only approximate the brutal reality of war, there is the chance to infuse the audience with liberal ideas of the rule of law even under the most adverse conditions. After all, the response to seeing injustice is likely to favour better institutions, better rules, better servants of the law and better practices. But products of popular cultural can also veil severe abuses of power and mythologise living and dying in war. In this case, law can become void or an auxiliary to crime.
KW - Law and popular culture
KW - Law and war
KW - War in popular culture
KW - Socio-legal studies
KW - Crime in the media
KW - Crime and war
KW - War crimes
KW - Military justice
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783756007356
BT - Law and War in Popular Culture
A2 - Machura, Stefan
PB - Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
CY - Baden-Baden
ER -