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Justice Provocateur
Justice Provocateur focuses on Prime Suspect, a popular British television film series starring Oscar and Emmy award-winning actress Helen Mirren as fictional London policewoman Jane Tennison. Gray Cavender and Nancy C. Jurik examine the media constructions of justice, gender, and police work in the show, exploring its progressive treatment of contemporary social problems in which women are central protagonists. They argue that the show acts as a vehicle for progressive moral fiction--fiction that gives voice to victim experiences, locates those experiences within a larger social context, transcends traditional legal definitions of justice for victims, and offers insights into ways that individuals might challenge oppressive social and organizational arrangements. _x000B__x000B_Although Prime Suspect is often seen as a uniquely progressive, feminist-inspired example within the typically more conservative, male-dominated crime genre, Cavender and Jurik also address the complexity of the films' gender politics. Consistent with some significant criticisms of the films, they identify key moments in the series when Tennison's character appears to move from a successful woman who has it all to a post-feminist stereotype of a lonely, aging career woman with no strong family or friendship ties. Shrewdly interpreting the show as an illustration of the tensions and contradictions of women's experiences and their various relations to power, Justice Provocateur provides a framework for interrogating the meanings and implications of justice, gender, and social transformation both on and off the screen._x000B_
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Prime Suspect
April 7 1991 saw the broadcast of the first instalment of Prime Suspect, a new crime series by screenwriter Lynda La Plante, starring Helen Mirren as DCI Jane Tennison.The drama focused on the desperate efforts of the Metropolitan Police to catch and convict a serial killer targeting women in a series of particularly gruesome attacks, while.
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Network arrests 'Prime Suspect'
[...] in the past decade or so, in addition to a heightened awareness of the evils of sexual harassment, there have also been a host of female-led crime dramas, including TNT's \"The Closer\" and \"Saving Grace.\"
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FALL TV PREVIEW; 'PRIME SUSPECT'; Don't expect lip gloss, and the fedora stays
Homicide detective Jane Timoney's hair is messy, not tousled, and those bruises on her face are fresh, from a knock-down, drag-out with a perp. Writer and creator Lynda La Plante is an executive producer along with Peter Berg (\"Friday Night Lights\"), and British producer ITV Studios America worked on the U.S. adaptation.
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Now Oscar royalty, Helen Mirren reflects on 'Prime Suspect'
Out next week on DVD: \"Bobby Z,\" \"Bosom Buddies\" (complete series), \"Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke,\" Delta Farce,\" \"Desperate Housewives\" (Season 3), \"I Dream of Jeannie\" (Season 4), \"Georgia Rule,\" \"Nip/Tuck (Season 4) \"The Office\" (Season 3), \"Resident Evil: Ressurrected Edition,\" \"Robot Chicken\" (Seasons 1 and 2) and \"Wind Chill.\"
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Mirren's Tennison has one last 'Prime Suspect' to track down
Helen Mirren first played [Jane Tennison] in 1991, when Jane was the bold new member of a crudely sexist squad of London cops. She was hampered and sabotaged at every turn, but she prevailed. Instead, let Mirren have the last word on Tennison. Would Jane be her best friend? \"She is my best friend.\" PHOTO; PHOTO - Helen Mirren stars as Jane Tennison for the last time in \"Prime Suspect: The Final Act.\" ITV plc (Granada International)
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Detective takes her final bow ; Mirren makes last episodes of 'Prime Suspect' essential
[Jane Tennison] is the senior London detective created 15 years ago by the incomparable Helen Mirren, who's sparking Oscar talk for her performance in \"The Queen.\" Through six previous \"Prime Suspect\" films, Mirren has made Tennison one of the most memorable TV cops of all time, despite -- or maybe because of -- the dogged investigator's many flaws.
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Mirren back on the case in 'Prime' form
[Jane Tennison] ultimately locates the victim's older sister, Jasmina (Ingeborga Dapkunaite), a hospital janitor. Jasmina hasn't reported her sister missing for the obvious reason: Contacting authorities would result in expulsion from the United Kingdom and a return to Bosnia, her land of birth and near-death during the \"ethnic cleansing\" of the early '90s. As usual in \"Prime Suspect,\" strong actors fill out the supporting roles. Dapkunaite is wrenching as a haunted survivor of atrocities. Playing a photojournalist who helps Tennison's inquiries, Liam Cunningham sketches in his uneasy personal history with Jane with a few awkward silences. Oleg Menshikov mixes warmth and chilliness as the optometrist who doubles as Zigic's translator. Even Phoebe Nicholls, so many years ago the youngest daughter in \"Brideshead Revisited,\" is memorable in a brief role as a governmental puppet master who shuts down Tennison's investigation. No one in the cast is a place holder. And Mirren, returning to the role after much too long, is playing at her peak. Photo The specter of early retirement haunts detective Jane Tennison ([Helen Mirren]) in \"Prime Suspect: The Last Witness.\" / WGBH Photo Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) and a fellow detective (Ben Miles) delve into a complex case in which a woman is strangled. / WGBH
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