Columbo: Class Struggle on TV Tonight
Author:   Lilian Mathieu ,  Pascal Bataillard
Publisher:   Brill
ISBN:  

9789004512429


Pages:   74
Publication Date:   06 January 2022
Format:   Paperback
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After a 35 year-long career on worldwide TV screens, Lieutenant Columbo has become one of the most famous fictional detectives. Lilian Mathieu shows that the Columbo series owes its success to its implicit but formidable political dimension, as each episode is structured as a class struggle between a rich, famous, cultured or powerful criminal and an apparently humble and blunderer police officer dressed in a crumpled raincoat and driving an antique car. Highlighting the contentious context that gave birth to the series in 1968, he shows that the sociology of culture offers intellectual tools to understand how a TV detective story can be appreciated as a joyful class revenge.

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Author:   Lilian Mathieu ,  Pascal Bataillard
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Weight:   0.151kg
ISBN:  

9789004512429


ISBN 10:   900451242
Pages:   74
Publication Date:   06 January 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Language:   French

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Abstract Keywords  Introduction  1 Class against Class  2 A World of Distinction  3 Superiority in Crime  4 A Sense of Limits  5 A Misplaced Police Officer  6 Police Work  7 Just One More Thing … References  List of Episodes

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Lilian Mathieu is a sociologist and senior researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (École normal supérieure de Lyon, France). A specialist in social movements, he especially focuses on relations between art, contentious politics and authoritarian regimes.

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