1st Edition
Contemporary British Television Crime Drama Cops on the Box
Foreword
Jonathan Nichols-Pethick
Introduction
Ruth McElroy
Part I: The British Crime Drama – new adventures in an established genre
1. Bad sex, target culture and the anti-terror state: new contexts for the British television police series
Charlotte Brunsdon
2. Unlocking the Mechanism of Murder: Forensic Humanism and Contemporary Crime Drama
Martin Willis
3. Walking Whitechapel: Ripper Street, Whitechapel, and Place in the Gothic Crime Drama
Rebecca Williams
4. Crime and Punishment - Jimmy McGovern’s Accused and Common
Steve Blandford
Part II: The Police
5. Women Cops on the Box: Female Detection in the British Police Procedural
Ruth McElroy
6. Unfettered Bureaucracy, Narrative Collapse: Postmodern Enemies in Line of Duty
Manel Morales
7. The Blitz Detective: Foyle’s War, History, Genre and Contemporary Politics
Stephen Lacey
8. Cars, Places and Spaces in Police Drama
Jonathan Bignell
Part III: Exporting and adapting crime
9. Crime Drama and Channel Branding: ITV and Broadchurch
Ross Garner
10. Bodies of Evidence: European Crime Series, BBC Four and Translating (Global) (In) Justice into (National) Public Television Culture
Janet McCabe
11. Exporting Englishness: Agatha Christies’s Poirot
Mary Brewer
12. Lost in Translation – TV remakes, transatlantic determinants and the failure of Prime Suspect US
Deborah Jermyn
Biography
Ruth McElroy is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of South Wales, UK. She is editor, with Stephen Lacey, of Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York, (2012), University of Wales Press She currently leads an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded international network on Television in Small Nations.
