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Autore: | Jenner Mareike |
Titolo: | American TV Detective Dramas : Serial Investigations / / by Mareike Jenner |
Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
Disciplina: | 791.45/655 |
Soggetto topico: | Literature—Philosophy |
Culture—Study and teaching | |
Literature, Modern—20th century | |
Fiction | |
Literature—History and criticism | |
Literary Theory | |
Cultural Theory | |
Twentieth-Century Literature | |
Literary History | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | American TV Detective Dramas |
ISBN: | 1-137-42566-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910255257503321 |
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