{"id":474,"date":"2015-03-02T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T02:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=474"},"modified":"2015-03-03T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T00:08:57","slug":"nightcrawler-a-moral-dilemma-of-our-own-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/03\/02\/nightcrawler-a-moral-dilemma-of-our-own-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightcrawler: a moral dilemma of our own making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Recently published: <em>Nightcrawler<\/em>: a moral dilemma of our own making<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>School of Justice sessional tutor Dr Dean Biron has published an article on the 2014 film <em>Nightcrawler<\/em>, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. The piece appeared in the online version of the Australian literary journal <em>Overland<\/em>. Dean is currently teaching Crime and Popular Culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNightcrawling\u201d refers to freelance camera operators who trawl the streets looking for newsworthy images from recent crime scenes. In the film, both Gyllenhaal and Russo\u2019s characters function at the margins of criminality, so as to stay ahead of their competition. The article considers how <em>Nightcrawler<\/em> works to implicate audiences in the immorality of certain media practices.<\/p>\n<p>Dean\u2019s previous work has appeared in such publications as <em>Child Abuse &amp; Neglect<\/em>, <em>Thesis Eleven<\/em>, <em>The Journal of Paediatrics &amp; Child Health<\/em>, <em>The Journal of Family Violence<\/em>, <em>Popular Music &amp; Society<\/em> and <em>Australian Book Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>His article can be accessed here: <a title=\"Nightcrawler\" href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/2015\/02\/nightcrawler-a-moral-dilemma-of-our-own-making\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nightcrawler<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/141021QUT_Law_146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-313\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/141021QUT_Law_146-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"141021QUT_Law_146\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/141021QUT_Law_146-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/141021QUT_Law_146-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/files\/2015\/01\/141021QUT_Law_146-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently published: Nightcrawler: a moral dilemma of our own making School of Justice sessional tutor Dr Dean Biron has published an article on the 2014 film Nightcrawler, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. The piece appeared in the online version of the Australian literary journal Overland. Dean is currently teaching Crime and Popular Culture. \u201cNightcrawling\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9720,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-crime-and-popular-culture","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}