The TV Crime Drama

by Sue Turnbull

Book Overview

The television crime drama has been a constant of the television landscape since it first migrated from film and radio onto the small screen in the 1950s. Since then, from Dixon of Dock Green to The Wire, from Minder to The Sopranos or Cracker to Dexter, the crime drama has continued to attract large audiences even as the depiction of the crime, the perpetrators and the investigators has changed. This book provides an historical analysis of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748640886
• ISBN13: 9780748640881
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher