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Law and Order (Paperback)
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Law and Order (Paperback)
Series: BFI TV Classics
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L?aw and Order is a police story, a crime series, a courtroom drama
and a prison film. Written by G. F. Newman, directed by Les Blair
and produced by Tony Garnett, Law and Order challenges the
comfortable world of the television police series to reveal the
proximity of police and villains in a world of deals, set-ups and
mutually advantageous financial arrangements. The 1978 series, shot
in a low-key naturalistic style, was so controversial when first
broadcast that the BBC could neither repeat nor export it, and BBC
news teams were excluded from prisons. Now available on DVD, Law
and Order is, Charlotte Brunsdon argues, an 'absent classic' in the
history of British television drama. This carefully-researched and
elegantly-argued study offers close analysis of the four films,
while also showing how Law and Order comments on contemporary
criminal justice scandals and exploring the outrage that the
broadcasts caused the year before the election of the 1979 Thatcher
government. It uses interviews with the makers of the programmes to
show how the films were made, and original archive research about
the BBC's response to the subsequent protests in a period of
political instability. Charlotte Brunsdon argues that now the
shocking claims of the series have been accepted as 'true enough',
it is time to recognise its aesthetic achievement, and restore Law
and Order to its place within the canon of great British television
drama. Law and Order offers a much bleaker vision of 1970s policing
than Life on Mars and re-runs of The Sweeney, and this study shows
how the series draws on the tradition of 'serious television drama'
and the popular police series to change ideas about both television
serial drama and British criminal justice.
General
Imprint: |
Bfi Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
BFI TV Classics |
Release date: |
November 2010 |
First published: |
December 2010 |
Authors: |
Charlotte Brunsdon
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Dimensions: |
190 x 135 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
144 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84457-294-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Television
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LSN: |
1-84457-294-3 |
Barcode: |
9781844572946 |
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