Lamb You’re nicked

Investigating British television police series
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-2586-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: The Television Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lamb, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Lamb is English Studies and Creative Writing Course Leader at Teesside University