Screening the police : film and law enforcement in the United States

Screening the police : film and law enforcement in the United States / Noah Tsika.

"American police departments have presided over the business of motion pictures since the end of the nineteenth century. Their influence is evident not only on the screen but also in the ways movies are made, promoted, and viewed in the United States. Screening the Police explores the history o...

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Main Author: Tsika, Noah, 1983- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Police in motion pictures.
Police and motion pictures.
Motion pictures > United States > History.
Motion pictures > Production and direction > United States.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures > Production and direction
Police and motion pictures
Police in motion pictures
United States
Electronic books.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "The glorification of policemen"
  • Cinema's municipalities: industrial expansion and the locations of policing
  • Cinematic badges: conventions, complications, and "Films for cops"
  • Veto power: Film censorship as discretionary policing
  • Ballistics, bertillonage, and ballyhoo: selling the science of crime detection
  • Filmgoers' fingerprints: supporting carceral expansion through "lobby gags"
  • From kiddie cops to the coal police: private proxies and the production of criminological common sense
  • Coda: 2020 vision.

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