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Author:   Ruth McElroy
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781472454935

ISBN 10:   1472454936
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   25 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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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.

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