Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast

ISBN-13: 9780415632881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 216 str.

Anita Lam

Opis

'Making Crime Television' employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. This book examines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated.

Spis treści

List of Figures  Introduction  Chapter 1. Setting the stage: A Literature Review and Analysis  Chapter 2. On Method: Trail-sniffing Ants and Bread Crumbs of Reflexivity  Chapter 3. Breaking The Bridge: Documenting the Heterogeneous Knowledge Inputs into the Laboratory of the Writers’ Room  Chapter 4. The Case of the Missing ‘Bad Apples’: Transforming ‘Injured Cop’ into ‘The Unguarded Moment’  Chapter 5. Showcasing Hamilton: How Place Becomes Relevant in the Making of Canadian Crime Dramas  Chapter 6. Conclusion  Bibliography

O autorze

Anita Lam is an Assistant Professor of Criminology in the Department of Social Science at York University, Canada.