Hastie Columbo

Make Me a Perfect Murder
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2759-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Spin Offs

Amelie Hastie examines the television show Columbo as a way to understand both the show itself, but also the history of Hollywood in the 1970s and television as a media technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hastie, Amelie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Humble Origins and Dogged Returns xv
Introduction: Murder by the Book 1
1. Mapping the Detective: Falk’s Early Drives 24
2. Best-Selling Mystery Team: Columbo and Televisual Collaboration 38
3. “I’m Fascinated by Money”: Rank, File, and Gumshoe Detection 72
4. Special Guest Stars: Hollywood Icons and Repeat Offenders 95
5. Between Columbo and Cassavetes: A Familial Pack 119
6. “An Obsessive Preoccupation with Gadgetry”: Columbo’s Investigation of Media Technologies 144
7. Columbo’s Reign: Of Life and Death and Detection 172
Epilogue: Loving and Leaving Columbo 197
Notes 201
Bibliography 219
Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Amelie Hastie is Nancy and Douglas D. Abbey ’71 Professor of Film and Media Studies and English at Amherst College and author of Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History, also published by Duke University Press.