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Policing the World on Screen - American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Crimefighters (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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Policing the World on Screen - American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Crimefighters (Paperback, 1st ed. 2019)
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This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American
crimefighter-whether cop, detective, or agent-who must safeguard
society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means
going "rogue" and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence,
but excused as self-defense or to serve the greater good. This
ends-justifies-means approach dates back to gunfighters taming the
western frontier to urban cowboy cops battling urban savagery-first
personified by "Dirty" Harry Callahan-and later dispatched in
global interventions to vanquish threats to national security.
America as the world's "policeman often means controlling the Other
at home and abroad, which also extends American hegemony from the
Cold War through the War on Terror. This book also examines
pioneering portrayals by males of color and female crimefighters to
embody such a social or national defender, which are frustrated by
their existence as threats the white knight exists to defeat.
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