You're nicked : investigating British television police series / Ben Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, Ben (Lecturer in media studies), author.

Series:

Television series (Manchester University Press)

The television series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television crime shows--Great Britain--History and criticism.

Television crime shows.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 217 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present. It reveals how the popular genre has developed along stylistic, thematic and philosophical lines, simultaneously providing a socio-political history of British class, culture and gender.

Contents:

Introduction: defining a genre

1. The 1950s and 1960s: a genre comes into its own

2. The 1970s: an action-fuelled filmic decade?

3. The 1980s: emergent feminist thought and resurgent video cameras

4. The 1990s: transitioning from film to digital

5. The 2000s: looking to the past

6. The 2010s: looking to pastures new

Conclusion: good evening, all

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526125866

1526125862

OCLC:

1230564820