TV Cops: The Contemporary American Television Police Drama

ISBN-13: 9780415877879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 232 str.

Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

Opis

The Contemporary American Television Police Drama. The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations - from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wire - embodies the full range of the cultural dynamics of television. Exploring the textual, industrial, and social contexts of police shows on American television, this book demonstrates how police drama plays a vital role in the way we understand and engage issues of social order that most of us otherwise.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Programming the Crisis: The Police Drama in the Post-Network Era  3. The Police Drama in Transition: Reconstituting the Cultural Forum in the 1980s  4. Stop Making Sense: Reflection, Realism, and Community in Homicide  5. Do the Right Thing: NYPD Blue and the Making of the Model Citizen  6. One Thing Leads to Another: Crime and the Commerce of Law & Order  7. This Cop’s For You: The Multiple Logics of the 21^st Century Police Drama  8. Conclusion