Contemporary British Television Crime Drama: Cops on the Box

ISBN-13: 9780367881016 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Ruth McElroy

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Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. It traces the changing cultural and narrative approaches the genre takes to the mediation of crime and policing. Contributors analyze popular series such as Broadchurch, Poirot, Sherlock and Wallan

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Foreword

Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

Introduction

Ruth McElroy

Part I: The British Crime Drama – new adventures in an established genre

1. Bad sex, target culture and the anti-terror state: new contexts for the British television police series

Charlotte Brunsdon

2. Unlocking the Mechanism of Murder: Forensic Humanism and Contemporary Crime Drama

Martin Willis

3. Walking Whitechapel: Ripper Street, Whitechapel, and Place in the Gothic Crime Drama

Rebecca Williams

4. Crime and Punishment - Jimmy McGovern’s Accused and Common

Steve Blandford

Part II: The Police

5. Women Cops on the Box: Female Detection in the British Police Procedural

Ruth McElroy

6. Unfettered Bureaucracy, Narrative Collapse: Postmodern Enemies in Line of Duty

Manel Morales

7. The Blitz Detective: Foyle’s War, History, Genre and Contemporary Politics

Stephen Lacey

8. Cars, Places and Spaces in Police Drama

Jonathan Bignell

Part III: Exporting and adapting crime

9. Crime Drama and Channel Branding: ITV and Broadchurch

Ross Garner

10. Bodies of Evidence: European Crime Series, BBC Four and Translating (Global) (In) Justice into (National) Public Television Culture

Janet McCabe

11. Exporting Englishness: Agatha Christies’s Poirot

Mary Brewer

12. Lost in Translation – TV remakes, transatlantic determinants and the failure of Prime Suspect US

Deborah Jermyn

O autorze

Ruth McElroy is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of South Wales, UK. She is editor, with Stephen Lacey, of Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York, (2012), University of Wales Press She currently leads an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded international network on Television in Small Nations.