Research Catalog

Title

Watching the cops : essays on police and policing in 21st century film and television / edited by Marcus K. Harmes, Barbara Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]

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Additional Authors

• Harmes, Marcus K.
• Harmes, Barbara
• Harmes, Meredith

Description

ix, 287 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Globally, police officers are the object of unprecedented visual scrutiny. The use of mobile phones, CCTV and personal body cams means that police are not only being filmed on the job but are also filming themselves. In popular culture, police have featured heavily on the big screen since the era of silent shorts and on television since the 1930s. Their fictional portrayals today take on added significance in light of social unrest surrounding cases of police brutality and discrimination. These essays explore 21st century portrayals of police on film and television. Chapters often emphasize the Black Lives Matter movement and consider the tone, quality, appropriateness and intention of film and television featuring police activity. Extensively covered works include Mindhunter, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cops, Criminal Minds and RoboCop, and among the major topics addressed are policing communities, hunting serial killers, police animals, and police in historic settings ranging from the 19th century through the present day and into science fiction futures"--

Subject

• Television cop shows > History and criticism
• Police films > History and criticism
• Police in motion pictures
• Motion pictures > Social aspects
• Television programs > Social aspects
• Police films
• Television cop shows
• Motion pictures
• Television programs

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Television criticism and reviews.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : past and future visions of policing / Meredith A. Harmes, Marcus K. Harmes, and Barbara Harmes -- "Scotland yard will never catch him" : Victorian detectives on television / Barbara Harmes, Marcus K. Harmes, and Meredith Harmes -- Hercule Poirot versus the police : detecting the ABC murders / Mark Aldridge -- Interrogating representations of criminal justice policy and procedure in Netflix's Criminal : UK / France / Germany / Spain / Benjamin Lamb -- "Blonde angels and damsels in distress" : death aesthetics and racial hierarchies in the American police procedural / Malinda Hackett -- Evil cops : two supernatural procedurals take on police brutality / Lynn Kozak -- "A man must have a code" : good po-lice and representations of masculinity in HBO's the Wire / Kyle Barrett -- Cops, Live PD, and the problem with post-BLM reality TV policing / Aaron Duplantier -- "A traffic stop gone wrong" : Cartesian police violence representation in the Hate u give (2018) / Hilde van der Wal -- "What you gonna do when they come for you?" : cops and the urgency of Black flight in Antoinette Nwandu's pass over / Cornelius Fortune -- Exceptional breeding : the serial killer births the Mindhunter / Michele Byers and Rachael Collins -- Mindhunter versus Criminal minds : degrees of procedurality, Todorov, and complex TV / Elly Temelcos -- Female sleuths and postfeminism in modern American crime shows : Bones and Castle / Lindsay Helwig -- Gender (in)equality in recent Cuban police dramas : Tras la huella, Patrulla 444, and Unidad Nacional Operativa / Carlos Uxo -- Pembleton versus Holt : policing while Black in homicide and Brooklyn Nine-Nine / Erin Giannini 215 -- Brooklyn Nine-Nine : the procedural comedy after the 2020 Black Lives Matter Movement / Hannah Spruce -- More than colleagues, less than human : implications of anthropomorphic policing / Marcus K. Harmes, Meredith A. Harmes, and Barbara Harmes -- Don't stand so close to me (because I'll be watching every breath you take) : robotic police and digital surveillance in the 21st Century / David Riddle Watson -- Future visions of policing / Marcus K. Harmes, Meredith A. Harmes, and Barbara Harmes.

Call Number

MWGS 23-4811

ISBN

• 9781476689340
• 1476689342

LCCN

2023040503

OCLC

1404058366

Title

Watching the cops : essays on police and policing in 21st century film and television / edited by Marcus K. Harmes, Barbara Harmes and Meredith A. Harmes.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Harmes, Marcus K., editor.

Harmes, Barbara, editor.

Harmes, Meredith, editor.

Research Call Number

MWGS 23-4811