You’re nicked: Investigating British television police series

Ben Lamb

doi:10.7765/9781526125866

You’re nicked is a genre study of police series produced by UK television from 1955 to the 2010s. It considers how the relationship among production practices, visual stylistics, and resultant ideology has evolved over the past sixty years, and how this has had an impact on changing cultural definitions of the police series genre.To chart the development of the genre each chapter focuses on a particular decade to examine how key series represent the changes that gendered identities and social-class demographics were experiencing economically, socially, and politically in light of the disassembly of the postwar settlement. Depictions of the police station, domestic scenes of criminals, and the private lives of police officials are examined to unearth the complex ideology underpinning each series and to determine how the police series genre can be used to document socio-economic changes to British society.

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Front matter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of figures
pp viii-viii

General editors' Preface
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xii

Introduction: Defining a genre
pp 1-12

1 - The 1950s and 1960s: A genre comes into its own
pp 13-34

2 - The 1970s: An action-fuelled filmic decade?
pp 35-60

3 - The 1980s: Emergent feminist thought and resurgent video cameras
pp 61-89

4 - The 1990s: Transitioning from film to digital
pp 90-119

5 - The 2000s: Looking to the past
pp 120-148

6 - The 2010s: Looking to pastures new
pp 149-180

Conclusion: Good evening, all
pp 181-192

References
pp 193-211

Index
pp 212-217

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