American TV Detective Dramas: Serial Investigations

by Mareike Jenner

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137425669
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	02/04/2016
Series:	Crime Files
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	191
File size:	277 KB

About the Author

Mareike Jenner is an Independent Scholar based in Berlin, Germany. She received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from Aberystwyth University, UK, in 2013. She has published on issues of gender and heteronormativity, the detective, teen and hospital genre and Video-on-Demand.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction
2.Investigating Detection: Methods of Detection in American Detective Dramas
3.Defining Detection: The Detective Genre
4.Telling Detection: The Narrative Structures of American TV Detective Dramas
5.Stabilising Detection: Protecting and Serving the Status Quo from 1950-1968
6.Reforming Detection: Social Change and Political Corruption from 1968-1980
7.Diversifying Detection: Proliferation of Channels and Television Cycles from 1980-2000
8.Disillusioned Detection: DNA and 9/11 from 2000-2010
9.Rethinking Detection: Alternative Methods of Detection
10.Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index