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Author: Bernadette Giacomazzo (freelance journalist)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 15.80cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.20cm
Weight: 0.520kg
ISBN: 9781538194812
ISBN 10: 1538194813
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 04 September 2025
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General/trade
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
""A fascinating look at how a beloved television show interweaves fact and fiction to tell stories that illuminate our lives and our culture and has changed the way we look at the legal system in the United States."" --Nicole Evelina, USA Today bestselling author ""Driven by commonplace and conservative narrative formulas, the police procedural has been a constitutive, and highly popular, genre of fictional television programming from the outset. It's not prestige TV-it's quintessentially TV, one might quip, suggesting why police series have garnered rather little scholarly attention. With her spirited examination of the Law & Order franchise, Bernadette Giacomazzo throws light on a notoriously neglected backstreet area of television studies. In a knowledgeable yet accessible style, she investigates the series' origins, properties, and spin-offs. Anyone who is fond of crime shows, as well as those interested in questions of social realism regarding the professional world of law and order vis-à-vis its portrayals on TV, should check out this book."" --Moritz Fink, author of The Simpsons: A Cultural History
A fascinating look at how a beloved television show interweaves fact and fiction to tell stories that illuminate our lives and our culture and has changed the way we look at the legal system in the United States. -- Nicole Evelina, USA Today bestselling author Driven by commonplace and conservative narrative formulas, the police procedural has been a constitutive, and highly popular, genre of fictional television programming from the outset. It’s not prestige TV—it’s quintessentially TV, one might quip, suggesting why police series have garnered rather little scholarly attention. With her spirited examination of the Law & Order franchise, Bernadette Giacomazzo throws light on a notoriously neglected backstreet area of television studies. In a knowledgeable yet accessible style, she investigates the series’ origins, properties, and spin-offs. Anyone who is fond of crime shows, as well as those interested in questions of social realism regarding the professional world of law and order vis-à-vis its portrayals on TV, should check out this book. -- Moritz Fink, author of The Simpsons: A Cultural History
Author Information
Bernadette Giacomazzo is an editor, writer, photographer, and author who is currently the nights & weekends reporter at HipHopDX and the senior news writer at Daily Express. Her work has been featured in People, Teen Vogue, Us Weekly, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, and many more. Giacomazzo was also the executive editor of LatinTRENDS Magazine and the Eye Candy editor of XXL Magazine. In addition to releasing her poetry chapbook, Aquarius Rising, with Nightingale & Sparrow Press, Giacomazzo also released In Living Color: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) and The Golden Girls: A Cultural History (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Based in New York City, Giacomazzo has also worked on various film and television projects and is the author of the critically acclaimed dystopian fiction books, The Uprising Series.
