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Beyond Dixon of Dock Green : early British police series / Susan Sydney-Smith.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.3.G7 S946 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sydney-Smith, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television cop shows--Great Britain.
- Television cop shows.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States of America and in Canada distributed by St Martins Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Based on original archive research, this book traces the emergence of a distinctly British form of TV entertainment: the early BBC uniformed police series. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the genre began with the 1955 series "Dixon of Dock Green, " Susan Sydney-Smith suggests that in fact these series were shaped by television's own evolution in social function from the relaying of news to the replaying of stories.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1860647901
- 186064824X
- OCLC:
- 48628126
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