From cops who are paragons of virtue, to cops who are as bad as the
bad guys...from surly loners, to upbeat partners...from detectives
who pursue painstaking investigation, to loose cannons who just
want to kick down the door, the heroes and anti-heroes of TV police
dramas are part of who we are. They enter our living rooms and tell
us tall tales about the social contract that exists between the
citizen and the police. Love them or loathe them - according to the
ratings, we love them - they serve a function. They've entertained,
informed and sometimes infuriated audiences for over 60 years. This
book attempts to explain why, but also to facilitate learning about
the genre in higher education, making these shows ""teachable"" in
a way they have never been before. Today not only are there more
critical texts available, but, in the age of the download and the
boxed set, the raw material is there. This collection of essays
examines Dragnet, Highway Patrol, Naked City, The Untouchables, The
F.B.I., Columbo, Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, Starsky & Hutch, Hill
Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice, Law & Order,
Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, CSI, The Shield, The Wire,
and Justified. It's time to take another look at the "perps," the
"vics" and the boys and girls in blue, and ask how their
representation intersects with questions of class, gender,
sexuality, and "race." What is their socio-cultural agenda? What is
their relation to genre and televisuality? And why is it that when
a TV cop gives a witness their card and says, ""call me,"" that
witness always ends up on a slab?
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