American TV Detective Dramas [electronic resource] : Serial Investigations /
Jenner, Mareike.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Literary History.