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eBook
Only the Names Have Been Changed
2022
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Subject
ISBN
9781477325384, 1477325387, 1477325395, 9781477325407, 9781477325391, 1477325409
