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American TV Detective Dramas

Part of the Crime Files Series Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137425669

ISBN: 978-1-349-55333-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 21, 2015

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 1 –13

[This book looks at the American TV detective genre and its function within a broader social and political landscape. Specifically, it explores the American TV detective genre via the methods of detection used to access the ‘truth’ about a crime. To explain what this means, it may be worth...
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Chapter 2Investigating Detection: Methods of Detection in American Detective Dramas

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 14 –38

[Detective dramas appear to be one of the most prolific genres on television screens internationally. American detective dramas are syndicated and broadcast all over the world. As such, the familiar narrative structures, ‘stock’ characters, urban settings, and so on seem to be almost taken for...
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Chapter 3Defining Detection: The Detective Genre

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 39 –54

[This chapter frames the analysis of the American television detective drama through genre. It will first give an outline of the relationship between the crime genre and the detective genre, and will then move on to discuss two of the detective genre’s sub-genres: the ‘genius’ detective genre and...
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Chapter 4Telling Detection: The Narrative Structures of American TV Detective Dramas

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 55 –75

[Methods of detection are inextricably linked with specific narrative structures, which carry ideological implications. For the purposes of this chapter, the detective genre is understood as a vast network of texts that tend to either copy existing structures or react against them. These...
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Chapter 5Stabilising Detection: Protecting and Serving the Status Quo 1950–68

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 76 –88

[Serialised detective narratives had been popular on radio long before original drama was produced for television. Popular examples are the radio series Dragnet (NBC, 1949–57) and The Fat Man (ABC, 1946–51). In cinema, the film series Dick Tracy (dir. James and Taylor 1937) is particularly...
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Chapter 6Reforming Detection: Social Change and Political Corruption 1968–80

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 89 –99

[Though the early 1960s still saw several police procedurals, what soon took over as the dominant sub-genre of the crime genre was the spy drama. With the domestic hunt for communists taking on a less aggressive tone and the international Cold War posing a more pertinent threat to US citizens...
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Chapter 7Diversifying Detection: Proliferation of Channels and Television Cycles 1980–2000

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 100 –123

[Towards the end of the 1970s, detective dramas were increasingly set outside the police force, with series like Charlie’s Angels or Hart to Hart moving the genre into Reagan’s neoliberal 1980s with an emphasis on the private enterprise of crime-solving. Dramas like Magnum P.I., Simon & Simon,...
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Chapter 8Disillusioned Detection: DNA and 9/11 2000–10

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 124 –143

[After two decades of featuring largely irrational-subjective methods of detection, the 2000s brought much aesthetic innovation to the familiar structures of dramas featuring rational-scientific methods of detection. A supposed ‘quality revolution’ led not only to much aesthetic innovation of the...
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Chapter 9Rethinking Detection: Alternative Methods of Detection

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 144 –164

[Coming out of the forensic drama cycle and the ‘quality TV’ of the early 2000s, a small number of dramas are developing new ways to think about the problem of how to access ‘truth’. This does not necessarily mean that they offer suggestions for alternative methods of detection — a factor that...
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Chapter 10Conclusion

Jenner, Mareike

Pages: 165 –171

[In the introduction to this book, I outlined my surprise at the immense popularity of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and 24 in a post-9/11 environment. Both dramas seemed to present almost opposing methods of detection and seemed to react to the national and international trauma surrounding them...

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