The TV Crime Drama

ISBN-13: 9780748640874 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 224 str.

Sue Turnbull

Opis

As a genre, the television crime drama has long been a constant of the television landscape since it first migrated from film and radio onto the small screen in the 1950s. Since then, from Dixon of Dock Green to The Wire, from Minder to The Sopranos or Cracker to Dexter and The Killing, it has continued to attract large audiences even as the depiction of the crime, the perpetrators and the investigators may have changed. In order to track these changes, this book provides an historical analysis of the TV crime series as a genre by paying close attention not only to the nature of TV dramas themselves, but also to the context of production and reception.

Spis treści

List of Figures and Images; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Promiscuous Hybrids; 1. The Roots of Crime; 2. Gritty realism: The British Police Procedural; 3. Quality Control: The American Police Procedural; 4. The Detective as Hero; 5. The Specialists; 6. Women and Crime; Conclusion: Coming up next….