Making crime television : producing entertaining representations of crime for television broadcast /

"Making Crime Television employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. The first study to examine the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, this book exa...

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Main Author: Lam, Anita
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
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