American TV detective dramas : serial investigations
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American TV detective dramas : serial investigations
（Crime files）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
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Filmography: p. 172-175
Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-186) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Investigating Detection: Methods of Detection in American Detective Dramas 3. Defining Detection: The Detective Genre 4. Telling Detection: The Narrative Structures of American TV Detective Dramas 5. Stabilising Detection: Protecting and Serving the Status Quo from 1950-1968 6. Reforming Detection: Social Change and Political Corruption from 1968-1980 7. Diversifying Detection: Proliferation of Channels and Television Cycles from 1980-2000 8. Disillusioned Detection: DNA and 9/11 from 2000-2010 9. Rethinking Detection: Alternative Methods of Detection 10. Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index
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