Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren asDCI Jane Tennison, was a grim UK police drama that becameone of the most talked about programs in recent memory. DeborahJermyn's study of the series examinesexactly what made Prime Suspect so distinctive, so controversial and, ultimately, so influential, its innovations transformingthe tv crime drama. Jermyn places the series in the context of tv crime fictions that had gone before it, particularly those featuring female detectives, such as Cagney and Lacey.
Jermyn also addresses the institutionalized sexism and misogyny...
Prime Suspect, starring Helen Mirren asDCI Jane Tennison, was a grim UK police drama that becameone of the most talked about programs in rec...
In recent years reality TV formats have proliferated on television. One of the most significant and controversial strands within this has been the growth of 'real crime TV'. Encapsulating everything from crime appeal shows to reconstruction programmes and actuality footage shows, real crime TV now plays a major role in our television schedules, filling countless hours of air-time every week.Crime Watching examines the spectacular growth of real crime TV, arguing that the birth of the BBC's Crimewatch UK in 1984 was a key transitional moment in the emergence, expansion and...
In recent years reality TV formats have proliferated on television. One of the most significant and controversial strands within this has been the gro...
