Only the Names Have Been Changed : : Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture / / Claudia Calhoun.
Among shifting politics, tastes, and technology in television history, one genre has been remarkably persistent: the cop show. Claudia Calhoun returns to Dragnet, the pioneering police procedural and an early transmedia franchise, appearing on radio in 1949, on TV and in film in the 1950s, and in la...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Dragnet and the Police Procedural
- Chapter 1. “Our Neo-realism”: The Hollywood Semidocumentary Cycle
- Chapter 2. Silence, Not Sirens: Dragnet’s Aural Realism
- Chapter 3. Saturation and Citizenship: Dragnet on Television and in Culture
- Chapter 4. Professionalization and Public Relations: Dragnet and the LAPD
- Epilogue: “One of Us”
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index