Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium's most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. It traces the changing cultural and narrative approaches the genre takes to the mediation of crime and policing. Contributors analyze popular series such as Broadchurch, Poirot, Sherlock and Wallander, paying attention to how this dynamic genre responds to processes of globalization and hybridization within the television industry itself.
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium's most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. It traces the changing cultural and narrative approaches the genre takes to the mediation of crime and policing. Contributors analyze popular series such as Broadchurch, Poirot, Sherlock and Wallander, paying attention to how this dynamic genre responds to processes of globalization and hybridization within the television industry itself.
Ruth McElroy is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of South Wales, UK. She is editor, with Stephen Lacey, of Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York, (2012), University of Wales Press She currently leads an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded international network on Television in Small Nations.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Jonathan Nichols-Pethick Introduction Ruth McElroy Part I: The British Crime Drama - new adventures in an established genre 1. Bad sex, target culture and the anti-terror state: new contexts for the British television police series Charlotte Brunsdon 2. Unlocking the Mechanism of Murder: Forensic Humanism and Contemporary Crime Drama Martin Willis 3. Walking Whitechapel: Ripper Street, Whitechapel, and Place in the Gothic Crime Drama Rebecca Williams 4. Crime and Punishment - Jimmy McGovern's Accused and Common Steve Blandford Part II: The Police 5. Women Cops on the Box: Female Detection in the British Police Procedural Ruth McElroy 6. Unfettered Bureaucracy, Narrative Collapse: Postmodern Enemies in Line of Duty Manel Morales 7. The Blitz Detective: Foyle's War, History, Genre and Contemporary Politics Stephen Lacey 8. Cars, Places and Spaces in Police Drama Jonathan Bignell Part III: Exporting and adapting crime 9. Crime Drama and Channel Branding: ITV and Broadchurch Ross Garner 10. Bodies of Evidence: European Crime Series, BBC Four and Translating (Global) (In) Justice into (National) Public Television Culture Janet McCabe 11. Exporting Englishness: Agatha Christies's Poirot Mary Brewer 12. Lost in Translation - TV remakes, transatlantic determinants and the failure of Prime Suspect US Deborah Jermyn
Foreword Jonathan Nichols-Pethick Introduction Ruth McElroy Part I: The British Crime Drama - new adventures in an established genre 1. Bad sex, target culture and the anti-terror state: new contexts for the British television police series Charlotte Brunsdon 2. Unlocking the Mechanism of Murder: Forensic Humanism and Contemporary Crime Drama Martin Willis 3. Walking Whitechapel: Ripper Street, Whitechapel, and Place in the Gothic Crime Drama Rebecca Williams 4. Crime and Punishment - Jimmy McGovern's Accused and Common Steve Blandford Part II: The Police 5. Women Cops on the Box: Female Detection in the British Police Procedural Ruth McElroy 6. Unfettered Bureaucracy, Narrative Collapse: Postmodern Enemies in Line of Duty Manel Morales 7. The Blitz Detective: Foyle's War, History, Genre and Contemporary Politics Stephen Lacey 8. Cars, Places and Spaces in Police Drama Jonathan Bignell Part III: Exporting and adapting crime 9. Crime Drama and Channel Branding: ITV and Broadchurch Ross Garner 10. Bodies of Evidence: European Crime Series, BBC Four and Translating (Global) (In) Justice into (National) Public Television Culture Janet McCabe 11. Exporting Englishness: Agatha Christies's Poirot Mary Brewer 12. Lost in Translation - TV remakes, transatlantic determinants and the failure of Prime Suspect US Deborah Jermyn
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