Homicide: Life on the Street /

"In many ways, Homicide was an anomaly in relation to the other television series airing at the time. Christopher Campbell argues that what made Homicide "unique as a prime-time network program [was] that [it] regularly dealt matter-of-factly with race and racism" (1). Chapter one of...

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Autor principal: Alexander, Lisa Doris (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2021.
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