Making crime television : producing entertaining representations of crime for television broadcast / Anita Lam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lam, Anita.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television--Production and direction.

Television.

Crime on television.

Actor-network theory.

Crime.

Physical Description:

212 pages ; 24 cm

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Making Crime Television employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. The first study to examine the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, this book examines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated. Using ethnographic and interview data, it considers how textual representations of crime are assembled by various people (e.g., writers, directors, producers, researchers, technical consultants, and network executives), technologies (e.g. screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts (e.g. newspaper articles, rival crime dramas, etc.). The emerging analysis does not project, but concretely examines, what television writers and producers know about crime, law and policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime, it is maintained, cannot be limited to an analysis of 'content'. Rather, it must be seen as the result of a particular assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests, legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. "-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

0415632889

9780415632881

OCLC:

793224480

Publisher Number:

99963796324