TV Cops: The Contemporary American Television Police Drama 0415877873, 9780415877879

The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonatha

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TV Cops: The Contemporary American Television Police Drama
0415877873, 9780415877879

In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748624942); This book explores the development of contemporary theatre in

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Over the past two decades, new technologies, changing viewer practices, and the proliferation of genres and channels has

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Drawing worldwide acclaim from critics and audiences alike, programmes like The Killing, Borgen, The Bridge and The Lega

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This book deals with a wide range of 'high-end', expensive and high concept, TV dramas from the UK and the USA

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Maps the development of the crime drama on international television As a genre, the television crime drama has long bee

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The early twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new sytle of television drama in Britain that adopts the prof

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For these men and women, it isn't just a job. It's a calling. PROTECT They are our eyes. Our ears. Our protec

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Israeli television, currently celebrating fifty years of broadcasting, has become one of the most important content sour

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Drugs, bribes, falsifying evidence, unjustified force and kickbacks: there are many opportunities for cops to act like c

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