Making Crime Television

Author : Anita Lam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134114451
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Crime Television written by Anita Lam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast examines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated. Using ethnographic and interview data, Anita Lam considers how textual representations of crime are assembled by various people (including writers, directors, technical consultants, and network executives), technologies (screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts (newspaper articles and rival crime dramas). The emerging analysis does not project but instead concretely examines what and how television writers and producers know about crime, law and policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime, it is maintained, cannot be limited to a content analysis that treats the representation as a final product. Rather, a television representation of crime must be seen as the result of a particular assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests, legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. A fascinating investigation into the relationship between television production, crime, and the law, this book is an accessible and well-researched resource for students and scholars of Law, Media, and Criminology.

Author : Anita Lam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134114389
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Crime Television written by Anita Lam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast examines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated. Using ethnographic and interview data, Anita Lam considers how textual representations of crime are assembled by various people (including writers, directors, technical consultants, and network executives), technologies (screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts (newspaper articles and rival crime dramas). The emerging analysis does not project but instead concretely examines what and how television writers and producers know about crime, law and policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime, it is maintained, cannot be limited to a content analysis that treats the representation as a final product. Rather, a television representation of crime must be seen as the result of a particular assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests, legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. A fascinating investigation into the relationship between television production, crime, and the law, this book is an accessible and well-researched resource for students and scholars of Law, Media, and Criminology.

Author : Jonathan A. Grubb
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479838632
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime TV written by Jonathan A. Grubb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, the key theories and concepts in criminal justice are explained through the lens of television In Crime TV, Jonathan A. Grubb and Chad Posick bring together an eminent group of scholars to show us the ways in which crime—and the broader criminal justice system—are depicted on television. From Breaking Bad and Westworld to Mr. Robot and Homeland, this volume highlights how popular culture frames our understanding of crime, criminological theory, and the nature of justice through modern entertainment. Featuring leading criminologists, Crime TV makes the key concepts and analytical tools of criminology as engaging as possible for students and interested readers. Contributors tackle an array of exciting topics and shows, taking a fresh look at feminist criminology on The Handmaid’s Tale, psychopathy on The Fall, the importance of social bonds on 13 Reasons Why, radical social change on The Walking Dead, and the politics of punishment on Game of Thrones. Crime TV offers a fresh and exciting approach to understanding the essential concepts in criminology and criminal justice and how theories of crime circulate in popular culture.

Author : Jeremy H. Lipschultz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135657114
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime and Local Television News written by Jeremy H. Lipschultz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the theory and practice of local TV news, considering the coverage of crime, for students in journalism, mass comm, media and society, and other areas.

Author : Tom Byrnes
Publisher : Prima Lifestyles
ISBN 13 : 9780761510260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Bestselling True Crime and Suspense written by Tom Byrnes and published by Prima Lifestyles. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True crime and suspense stories make a killing at the box office, on bestseller lists, and on TV. Both new and experienced writers have found that they can master the special skills required to make crime pay -- in book and movie contracts. "Writing Bestselling True Crime and Suspense shows how you, too, can: - Find and develop compelling true crime stories from everyday sources - Dig out the facts and put them on paper - Fashion your story for books, TV, or movies - Market your story for maximum profit - And much moreAs a special bonus, author Tom Byrnes has included in-depth interviews with true crime movers and shakers including writers, publishers, and Hollywood producers. Writing Bestselling True Crime and Suspense will show you how to craft gripping accounts of the dark deeds that dominate the news and sell them to publishers and beyond. About the Author Tom Byrnes is the author of the national bestseller "Madame Foreman: A Rush to Judgment, about the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial. He is also an award-winning editor and a journalist whose work has appeared in national newspapers and magazines.

Author : Douglas M. Snauffer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313054959
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime Television written by Douglas M. Snauffer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime dramas have been a staple of the television landscape since the advent of the medium. Along with comedies and soap operas, the police procedural made an easy transition from radio to TV, and starting with Dragnet in 1952, quickly became one of the most popular genres. Crime television has proven to be a fascinating reflection of changes and developments in the culture at large. In the '50s and early '60s, the square-jawed, just-the-facts detectives of The Untouchables and The FBI put police work in the best light possible. As the '60s gave way to the '70s, however, the depictions gained more subtle shading, and The Streets of San Francisco, The Rockford Files, and Baretta offered conflicted heroes in more complex worlds. This trend has of course continued in more recent decades, with Steven Bochco's dramas seeking a new realism through frank depictions of language and sexuality on television. In chronicling these developments and illustrating how the genre has reflected our ideas of crime and crime solving through the decades, author Douglas Snauffer provides essential reading for any fan. This work provides a comprehensive history of detective and police shows on television, with, among other elements, production histories of seminal programs, and interviews with some of the most important writers and producers of crime television. Besides the shows listed above, this volume will also discuss such programs as: Peter Gunn, The Mod Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Columbo, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Magnum P.I., Miami Vice, T.J. Hooker, Remington Steele, Cagney and Lacey, Murder, She Wrote, The Commish, Homicide: Life on the Street, Monk, and many more.

Author : Jonathan A. Grubb
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479884979
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime TV written by Jonathan A. Grubb and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a straightforward and vibrant approach to the study of criminal behavior and contemporary criminal justice issues through the use of popular TV shows. Students, researchers, and anyone else interested in crime will find this book an accessible and informative resource for understanding the causes of crime and how society responds to crime"--

Author : Timothy O. Lenz
Publisher : Politics, Media, and Popular Culture
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Images of Law in Film & Television Crime Stories written by Timothy O. Lenz and published by Politics, Media, and Popular Culture. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important legal developments in the last half of the twentieth century was the change from criminal justice policies shaped primarily by liberal ideas to those shaped primarily by conservative ideas. This book examines images of law in Hollywood films and television crime dramas to better understand this conservative revolution in thinking about crime. The crime stories depicted in popular legal fiction provide interesting as well as insightful perspectives on law in American society, particularly changing images of justice and its administration as well as individual rights.

Author : Sunka Simon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501368702
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix written by Sunka Simon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix approaches German television crime dramas to uncover the intersections between the genre's media-specific network and post-network formats and how these negotiate with and contribute to concepts of the regional, national, and global. Part I concentrates on the ARD network's long-running flagship series Tatort (Crime Scene 1970-). Because the domestically produced crime drama succeeded in interacting with and competing against dominant U.S. formats during 3 different mediascapes, it offers strategic lessons for post-network television. Situating 9 Tatort episodes in their televisual moment within the Sunday evening flow over 38 years and 3 different German regions reveals how producers, writers, directors, critics, and audiences interacted not only with the cultural socio-political context, but also responded to the challenges aesthetically, narratively, and media-reflexively. Part II explores how post-2017 German crime dramas (Babylon Berlin, Dark, Perfume, and Dogs of Berlin) rework the genre's formal and narrative conventions for global circulation on Netflix. Each chapter concentrates on the dynamic interplay between time-shifted viewing, transmedia storytelling, genre hybridity, and how these interact with projections of cultural specificity and continue or depart from established network practices. The results offer crucial information and inspiration for producers and executives, for creative teams, program directors, and television scholars.

Author : Robert J. Sampson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674176058
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime in the Making written by Robert J. Sampson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the re-analysis of Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks' mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 non-delinquents from childhood to adulthood, this informal social control theory accepts the importance of childhood behaviour but rejects the idea that a.