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Making Crime Television - Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast (Paperback)
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Making Crime Television - Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast (Paperback)
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This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how
representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time
television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of
contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing
process, Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining
Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast examines not only
the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material
conditions under which those meanings are formulated. Using
ethnographic and interview data, Anita Lam considers how textual
representations of crime are assembled by various people (including
writers, directors, technical consultants, and network executives),
technologies (screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts
(newspaper articles and rival crime dramas). The emerging analysis
does not project but instead concretely examines what and how
television writers and producers know about crime, law and
policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime,
it is maintained, cannot be limited to a content analysis that
treats the representation as a final product. Rather, a television
representation of crime must be seen as the result of a particular
assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests,
legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. A fascinating
investigation into the relationship between television production,
crime, and the law, this book is an accessible and well-researched
resource for students and scholars of Law, Media, and Criminology.
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