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Columbo : make me a perfect murder / Amelie Hastie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hastie, Amelie, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Console-ing passions book series. Spin offs
- Spin offs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Falk, Peter, 1927-2011.
- Falk, Peter.
- Columbo (Television program).
- Television broadcasting--History and criticism.
- Television broadcasting.
- Detective and mystery television programs--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery television programs.
- Columbo, Lieutenant (Fictitious character).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 229 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "In Columbo, Amelie Hastie argues that Richard Levinson and William Link's popular crime series trains its viewers in the interpretation of television as a medium. Columbo dramatizes the "process of coming-to-know" by following Peter Falk's fictional detective as he makes associations between seemingly disconnected details. Hastie shows how this intertextual process of detection mirrors the experience of watching television, which can be understood as a "simultaneous play of texts." Hastie's treatment of Columbo as a series is similarly intertextual: The book is at once an examination of television as a media technology, a historical study of Hollywood film and television production in the 1970s, and a formal analysis of the series itself"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Murder by the Book
- Mapping the Detective: Falk's Early Drives
- Best-Selling Mystery Team: Columbo and Televisual Collaboration
- "I'm Fascinated by Money": Rank, File, and Gumshoe Detection
- Special Guest Stars: Hollywood Icons and Repeat Offenders
- Between Columbo and Cassavetes: A Familial Pack
- An "Obsessive Preoccupation with Gadgetry": Columbo's Investigation of Media Technologies
- Columbo's Reign: Of Life and Death and Detection
- Loving and Leaving Columbo.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hastie, Amelie. Columbo.
- ISBN:
- 9781478027591
- 1478027592
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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