"Making Crime Television employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. The first study to examine the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing proces…
Despite the resurgence of interest in British cinema and, more recently, British television, there have been no studies to date devoted to the genesis of domestic TV/Film production. This project presents for the first time an industrial and cultural history of the transformatio…
This book delves into humanity?s compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasure in watching people behave badly. This book offers an analysis of the varied and vexing definitions of hero, criminal, …
"Over the last few decades, television programs have attempted to depict some of the more troubling elements of society with a more conscientious approach. Issues that networks were once reluctant to broadcast--such as sexual abuse, sexual assault, and rape--have become frequent…
"As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type. Television Antiheroines looks closely at this recent development, exploring the emergence of women characters in roles typica…
"Television series are regarded as significant works of culture in today's society, which explains the increasing demand for their translations in order to reach larger audiences. This book focuses on one of the two most spread modes of audiovisual translation for this type of p…
"International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's respons…
"International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's respons…
Throughout its limited run beginning in 2014, the HBO series True Detective has presented viewers with unique takes on the American crime drama on television, marked by literary and cinematic influences, heavyweight performances, and an experimental approach to the genre. At tim…
"This collection of essays examines Dragnet, Highway Patrol, Naked City, The Untouchables, The F.B.I., Columbo, Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, Starsky et Hutch, Hill Street Blues, Cagney et Lacey, Miami Vice, Law et Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, CSI, The Shield, The Wir…
