Contemporary British Television Crime Drama : Cops on the Box
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Output identifier
- 1128092
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781472454935
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Screen Media
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Crime drama is both a long-standing popular staple of television and a genre which has witnessed tremendous innovation and diversification in the twenty-first century. This collection brings together both established and early career scholars to interrogate the critical evolution of the genre and its enduring popularity with viewers and commissioners alike. It asks why cops are almost always on the box and answers this question by recourse to textual, historical, ideological, and industrial perspectives.
McElroy conceived the entire collection. All 12 chapters were commissioned and edited by her as original contributions. McElroy’s own Introduction (11,00 words) provides a substantive critical analysis of British television crime drama’s evolution and the ways in which television scholarship in turn has developed different methodological approaches to interrogate crime drama’s narrative textual, cultural, and industrial appeal.
McElroy’s own original chapter (6,500 words) provides a compelling feminist account of police procedurals as a specific iteration of crime drama that attest to the genre’s representation and ‘working through’ of fundamental cultural shifts in women’s professional lives. The collection purposefully focuses on British TV crime drama exploring the historical development of the genre in the wider context of British television culture and its expansive formal and ideological range from historical adaptations through to forensic crime series. However, it also argues the case for crime drama’s pivotal place in the transnational televisual economy with individual commissioned chapters tracing the impact both of British crime exports and also European imports which have transformed the critical reception of crime drama as an innovative televisual genre.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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