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Morta Las Vegas : CSI and the problem of the West
Through all its transformations and reinventions over the past century, \"Sin City\" has consistently been regarded by artists and cultural critics as expressing in purest form, for better or worse, an aesthetic and social order spawned by neon signs and institutionalized indulgence. In other words, Las Vegas provides a codex with which to confront the problems of the West and to track the people, materials, ideas, and virtual images that constitute postregional space.Morta Las Vegas considers Las Vegas and the problem of regional identity in the American West through a case study of a single episode of the television crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Delving deep into the interwoven events of the episode titled \"4 x 4,\" but resisting a linear, logical case-study approach, the authors draw connections between the city--a layered and complex world--and the violent, uncanny mysteries of a crime scene. Morta Las Vegas reveals nuanced issues characterizing the emergence of a postregional West, moving back and forth between a geographical and a procedural site and into a place both in between and beyond Western identity.
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Only the Names Have Been Changed
Among shifting politics, tastes, and technology in television
history, one genre has been remarkably persistent: the cop show.
Claudia Calhoun returns to Dragnet, the pioneering police
procedural and an early transmedia franchise, appearing on radio in
1949, on TV and in film in the 1950s, and in later revivals. More
than a popular entertainment, Dragnet was a signifier of
America's postwar confidence in government institutions-and a
publicity vehicle for the Los Angeles Police Department.
Only the Names Have Been Changed shows how
Dragnet 's \"realistic\" storytelling resonated across
postwar culture. Calhoun traces Dragnet 's
\"semi-documentary\" predecessors, and shows how Jack Webb,
Dragnet 's creator, worked directly with the LAPD as he
produced a series that would likewise inspire public trust by
presenting day-to-day procedural justice, rather than shootouts and
wild capers. Yet this realism also set aside the seething racial
tensions of Los Angeles as it was. Dragnet emerges as a
foundational text, one that taught audiences to see police as
everyday heroes not only on TV but also in daily life, a lesson
that has come under scrutiny as Americans increasingly seek to
redefine the relationship between policing and public safety.
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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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TV Cops
The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations-from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wire-embodies the full range of the cultural dynamics of television.
Exploring the textual, industrial, and social contexts of police shows on American television, this book demonstrates how polices drama play a vital role in the way we understand and engage issues of social order that most of us otherwise experience only in such abstractions as laws and crime statistics. And given the current diffusion and popularity of the form, we might ask a number of questions that deserve serious critical attention: Under what circumstances have stories about the police proliferated in popular culture? What function do these stories serve for both the television industry and its audiences? Why have these stories become so commercially viable for the television industry in particular? How do stories about the police help us understand current social and political debates about crime, about the communities we live in, and about our identities as citizens?
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Policing the media : street cops and public perceptions of law enforcement
Policing the Media is an investigation into one of the paradoxes of the mass media age. Issues, events, and people that we see most on our television screens are often those that we understand the least. David Perlmutter examined this issue as it relates to one of the most frequently portrayed groups of people on television: police officers. Policing the Media is a report on the ethnography of a police department, derived from the author′s experience riding on patrol with officers and joining the department as a reserve policeman. Drawing upon interviews, Perlmutter describes the lives and philosophies of street patrol officers. He finds that cops hold ambiguous attitudes toward their television characters, for much of TV copland is fantastic and unrealistic. Moreover, the officers perceive that the public′s attitudes toward law enforcement and crime are directly influenced by mass media. This in turn, he suggests, influences the way that they themselves behave and perform on the street, and that unreal and surreal expectations of them are propagated by television cop shows. This cycle of perceptual influence may itself profoundly impact the contemporary criminal justice system, on the street, in the courts, and in the hearts and minds of ordinary people.
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Sunday morning. Almanac : June 3, 1949
This segment of Sunday Morning is about the tv series police show called Dragnet.
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Police Ten 7 feeds racial stereotypes of Māori and Pasifika peoples in Aotearoa New Zealand
Tests the hypotheses that Māori and Pasifika depicted on the reality crime TV show Police Ten 7 will be more likely to be depicted as committing violent crimes than Pākehā suspects, and that the proportion of aggressive offences Māori and Pasifika are depicted committing on the show will be higher than that drawn from the National Annual Apprehension statistics. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Morta Las Vegas
Through all its transformations and reinventions over the past century, \"Sin City\" has consistently been regarded by artists and cultural critics as expressing in purest form, for better or worse, an aesthetic and social order spawned by neon signs and institutionalized indulgence. In other words, Las Vegas provides a codex with which to confront the problems of the West and to track the people, materials, ideas, and virtual images that constitute postregional space.Morta Las Vegasconsiders Las Vegas and the problem of regional identity in the American West through a case study of a single episode of the television crime dramaCSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Delving deep into the interwoven events of the episode titled \"4 × 4,\" but resisting a linear, logical case-study approach, the authors draw connections between the city-a layered and complex world-and the violent, uncanny mysteries of a crime scene.Morta Las Vegasreveals nuanced issues characterizing the emergence of a postregional West, moving back and forth between a geographical and a procedural site and into a place both in between and beyond Western identity.
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