UID:
almafu_9958130597802883
Format:
1 online resource (198 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2016.
ISBN:
9781137425669
,
1137425660
Series Statement:
Crime Files,
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
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.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781349553334
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1349553336
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137425652
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1137425652
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1057/9781137425669
