Kniha Cop Knowledge Christopher P. Wilson

Cop Knowledge

Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Brožovaná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver scree...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydáno
2000
Stránek
289
EAN
9780226901336
ISBN
0226901335
Enbook ID
05191979
Hmotnost
466
Rozměry
229 x 154 x 28

Kompletní popis

Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver screen, few figures have maintained such an extraordinary hold on the American cultural imagination as modern police officers. Why are we so fascinated with the police and their power? What relation do these pervasive media representations bear to the actual history of modern policing? Christopher P. Wilson explores these questions by examining narratives of police power in crime news, popular fiction, and film, showing how they both reflect and influence the real strategies of law enforcement on the beat, in the squad room and in urban politics. He takes us from Theodore Roosevelt's year of reform with the 1890s NYPD to the rise of "community policing", from the classic "police procedural" film "The Naked City" to the best-selling novels of LAPD veteran Joseph Wambaugh. Wilson concludes by demonstrating the ways in which popular storytelling about police power has been intimately tied to the course of modern liberalism, and to the rising tide of neoconservatism today.

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