The TV crime drama

• Main Author: Turnbull, Sue 1950 (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2014]
• Series: TV genres
• Subjects: Detective and mystery television programs > History and criticism; Television crime shows
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• Physical Description: 216 pages : illustrations 23 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-209) and index
• ISBN: 0748640878; 0748640886 (hbk.); 9780748640874 (pbk.); 9780748640881 (hbk.)

This title maps the development of the crime drama on international television. 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 TV crime series as a genre by paying close attention not only to the nature of TV dramas themselves, but also to the context of production and reception. Rather than simply providing an overview, this book offers a series of case studies to illuminate key issues in the trajectory of the genre.