Family violence happens to everybody: gender, mental health and violence in Australian media representations of filicide 2010–2014
Little, Janine 2015, Family violence happens to everybody: gender, mental health and violence in Australian media representations of filicide 2010–2014, Continuum: journal of media and cultural studies, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 605-616, doi: 10.1080/10304312.2015.1025366.
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Family violence happens to everybody: gender, mental health and violence in Australian media representations of filicide 2010–2014
This discussion of three cases of filicide reported and reviewed extensively by the Australian news media between 2010 and 2014 is concerned with the politics of representation and its links to material violence. Moving through the architecture of the coverage rather than focusing on it this article observes popular, if mostly tacit, assumptions about masculinity and femininity in representing ‘family violence’. It locates coverage patterns to illustrate perceptions of violence against women and children and inaccurate stereotyping of such family violence as the extraordinary consequences of mental illness, which are mostly reproduced by the Australian media. It is suggested that such media representations are part of a downplaying of family violence as a public issue of urgency.
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