American TV detective dramas : serial investigations /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenner, Mareike, 1983-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Colección:Crime files series.
Temas:
Detective and mystery television programs > United States > History and criticism.
Émissions de détective télévisées > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Cultural studies.
Fiction & related items.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary theory.
Literature: history & criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Detective and mystery television programs
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Investigating detection: methods of detection in American detective dramas
  • Defining detection: the detective genre
  • Telling detection: the narrative structures of American TV detective dramas
  • Stabilising detection: protecting and serving the status quo from 1950-1968
  • Reforming detection: social change and political corruption from 1968-1980
  • Diversifying detection: proliferation of channels and television cycles from 1980-2000
  • Disillusioned detection: DNA and 9/11 from 2000-2010
  • Rethinking detection: alternative methods of detection
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix.

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