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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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 (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-13
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Investigating Detection: Methods of Detection in American Detective Dramas
Pages 14-38
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Defining Detection: The Detective Genre
Pages 39-54
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Telling Detection: The Narrative Structures of American TV Detective Dramas
Pages 55-75
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Stabilising Detection: Protecting and Serving the Status Quo 1950–68
Pages 76-88
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- American TV Detective Dramas
- Book Subtitle
- Serial Investigations
- Authors
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- Mareike Jenner
- Series Title
- Crime Files
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-42566-9
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137425669
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-42565-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 191
- Topics
