American TV Detective Dramas

American TV Detective Dramas

Author: Mareike Jenner

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 1137425652

Category: Fiction

Page: 198

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American detective dramas are a common and familiar fixture on televisions everywhere – from Dragnet to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, from Columbo to Twin Peaks. This book explores the genre and its rich history from 1950s television onwards, focusing on the question of how detectives access and attain 'truth'. In this, American TV Detective Dramas takes the reader through the rich history of the genre, its narrative structures, its position in changing industrial and aesthetic contexts and its function in a broader political and social field. Detective dramas and methods of detection are, thus, not just viewed as a genre convention, but as representatives of ideological tendencies.
American TV Detective Dramas
Language: en
Pages: 198

American TV Detective Dramas

Authors: Mareike Jenner
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-10 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

American detective dramas are a common and familiar fixture on televisions everywhere – from Dragnet to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, from Columbo to Twin Peaks. This book explores the genre and its rich history from 1950s television onwards, focusing on the question of how detectives access and attain 'truth'. In
American TV Detective Dramas
Language: en
Pages: 191

American TV Detective Dramas

Authors: Mareike Jenner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-04 - Publisher: Springer

The way detectives access and attain the 'truth' about a crime is an important indicator of how they relate to contemporary political developments. This book explores these methods of detection and positions the genre in a specific political, aesthetic, narrative and industrial context.
All-American TV Crime Drama
Language: en
Pages: 256

All-American TV Crime Drama

Authors: Sujata Moorti, Lisa Cuklanz
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-18 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative? All-American TV Crime Drama is the first dedicated study
American TV Detective Dramas
Language: en
Pages: 191

American TV Detective Dramas

Authors: Mareike Jenner
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-14 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

The way detectives access and attain the 'truth' about a crime is an important indicator of how they relate to contemporary political developments. This book explores these methods of detection and positions the genre in a specific political, aesthetic, narrative and industrial context.
TV Crime Drama
Language: en
Pages: 336

TV Crime Drama

Authors: Sue Turnbull
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-23 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

This book provides an historical analysis of the TV crime series as a genre, paying close attention not only to the nature of TV dramas themselves, but also to the context of production and reception.