TV cops
Subtitle: the contemporary American television police drama
By: Jonathan Nichols-Pethick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780415877879; 9780415877886; 9780203855027
Subjects: Television cop shows; History and criticism; Detective and mystery television programs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Programming the crisis: the police drama in the post-network era; title: The police drama in transition: reconstituting the cultural forum in the 1980s; title: Stop making sense: reflection, realism, and community in homicide; title: Do the right thing: NYPD blue and the making of the model citizen; title: One thing leads to another: crime and the commerce of Law & order; title: This cop's for you: the multiple logics of the 21st century police drama; title: conclusion.