American TV Detective Dramas
Serial Investigations
Published on 8. November 2015
Book
Hardback
VI, 191 pages
978-1-137-42565-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
VI, 191 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-137-42565-2 (9781137425652)
DOI
10.1057/9781137425669
Schweitzer Classification
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02/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
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01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
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Person
Mareike Jenner is an Independent Scholar based in Berlin, Germany. She received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from Aberystwyth University, UK, in 2013. She has published on issues of gender and heteronormativity, the detective, teen and hospital genre and Video-on-Demand.
Content
1. Introduction 2. Investigating Detection: Methods of Detection in American Detective Dramas 3. Defining Detection: The Detective Genre 4. Telling Detection: The Narrative Structures of American TV Detective Dramas 5. Stabilising Detection: Protecting and Serving the Status Quo from 1950-1968 6. Reforming Detection: Social Change and Political Corruption from 1968-1980 7. Diversifying Detection: Proliferation of Channels and Television Cycles from 1980-2000 8. Disillusioned Detection: DNA and 9/11 from 2000-2010 9. Rethinking Detection: Alternative Methods of Detection 10. Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index