Interrogating The shield

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When The Shield first appeared on U.S. television in March 2002, it broke ratings records with the highest audience-rated original series premiere in cable history. In the course of its subsequent seven-season run, the show went on to win international acclaim for its abrasive depiction of an urban American dystopia and the systemic political and juridical corruption feeding it. This book, dedicated to the analysis of this immensely successful series, brings together ten critical essays written…

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Title Statements

Full title :Interrogating The shield / edited by Nicholas Ray.

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Publication Date:2012
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Syracuse University Press
Place of Publication:Syracuse, N.Y
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xi, 227 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780815651895, 0815651899
oclc:ocn844247344
LC Classification:PN1992.77.S476
Dewey Decimal:791.45/72

Introduction : trees falling -- The derivation of a television crime drama / Concepción Cascajosa Virino -- The meaning of messiness : The shield and the production of television style / Gary Needham -- Sound policing : attending to acoustic matters in The shield / Nicholas Chare -- Fitting the profile : Dutch Wagenbach, realism, and the ensemble / Lorna Jowett -- Quality, controversy, and criminality : The shield as post-Sopranos cop show / Glyn White -- Scenes from the interrogation room : power, character, truth, and justice in The shield / Douglas L. Howard -- "You want me to lick your balls, daddy?" : masculinity, race, and power in The shield / Mike Chopra-Gant -- Glass ceilings : gender, sexism, and The shield / Jason P. Vest -- "A different kind of cop" : exception and complicity in The shield / Nicholas Ray -- Cracking ice : The shield and the middle-class crisis of social reproduction / Stephen Shapiro.