The police drama has been one of the longest running and most
popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan
Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the
police series in all its manifestations from Hill Street Blues to
Miami Vice to The Wire embodies the full range of the cultural
dynamics of television.
Exploring the textual, industrial, and social contexts of police
shows on American television, this book demonstrates how polices
drama play a vital role in the way we understand and engage issues
of social order that most of us otherwise experience only in such
abstractions as laws and crime statistics. And given the current
diffusion and popularity of the form, we might ask a number of
questions that deserve serious critical attention: Under what
circumstances have stories about the police proliferated in popular
culture? What function do these stories serve for both the
television industry and its audiences? Why have these stories
become so commercially viable for the television industry in
particular? How do stories about the police help us understand
current social and political debates about crime, about the
communities we live in, and about our identities as citizens?
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