Police on Screen
Subtitle: Hollywood Cops, Detectives, Marshals and Rangers
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: May 24, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780786425778
Subjects: Films, cinema; United States; Performing Arts/Dance; Motion Pictures Of Specific Genres; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Reference; USA; Police films; Film & Video - History & Criticism; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Western films; Film & Video - General; Detective and mystery films; History and criticism
Description: "This comprehensive examination provides a critical-historical analysis of law enforcement in American cinema. From High Noon to The Empire Strikes Back, it examines the police in their many incarnations with emphasis on the ways in which lawmen are portrayed and how this portrayal changes over time"--Provided by publisher.