Cop knowledge : police power and cultural narrative in twentieth-century America
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書誌事項
Cop knowledge : police power and cultural narrative in twentieth-century America
University of Chicago Press, c2000
- : cloth : alk. paper
- : pbk : alk. paper
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Cop knowledge : police power and cultural narrative in 20th-century America
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-274) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver screen, few figures have maintained such an extraordinary hold on the American cultural imagination as modern police officers. Why are we so fascinated with the police and their power? What relation do these pervasive media representations bear to the actual history of modern policing? Christopher P. Wilson explores these questions by examining narratives of police power in crime news, popular fiction, and film, showing how they both reflect and influence the real strategies of law enforcement on the beat, in the squad room and in urban politics. He takes us from Theodore Roosevelt's year of reform with the 1890s NYPD to the rise of "community policing", from the classic "police procedural" film "The Naked City" to the best-selling novels of LAPD veteran Joseph Wambaugh. Wilson concludes by demonstrating the ways in which popular storytelling about police power has been intimately tied to the course of modern liberalism, and to the rising tide of neoconservatism today.
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