American TV Detective Dramas

The way detectives access and attain the 'truth' about a crime is an important indicator of how they relate to contemporary political developments. This book explores these methods of detection and positions the genre in a specific political, aesthetic, narrative and industrial context.

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Mareike Jenner is an Independent Scholar based in Berlin, Germany. She received her PhD in Film and Television Studies from Aberystwyth University, UK, in 2013. She has published on issues of gender and heteronormativity, the detective, teen and hospital genre and Video-on-Demand.