TY - CHAP

T1 - Introduction: Law and War in Popular Culture

AU - Machura, Stefan

PY - 2024/11/1

Y1 - 2024/11/1

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 -