A2 Media Studies coursework–
How are police detectives represented in TV and film drama? With specific reference to TV drama series ‘The Bill’ and ‘Columbo’.
In this essay I shall investigate and explore the representation of the Police and Detective genre in TV drama and film. I intend to research the different types of detectives and police, and to build up knowledge of the genre. Subsequently, I will analyse and compare American and British police/detective TV series and their characters. ...
For a particular film/drama to belong to the detective genre, it requires two main features: a narrative that follows an investigation, and a protagonist that functions as a detective figure. ... The representation of the police/detective genre and its key character figures has an underlying stereotyped narrative. The police and detective genre originated in America from the Westerns. Westerns were cheap to film and highly exportable. ... This genre, in film and TV drama, is often crossed over into other genres. It can be regarded as a subcategorised genre of the crime film (along with the gangster films, thrillers, etc). The narrative of the police detective genre follows the heros investigation of a crime. ... Detectives are represented in many different ways, and have evolved through TV and cinema, from the classical detective to the hard-boiled, from the cop who follows procedure to the one that throws the book away, to the criminalist. ...
The 1920s and 1930s introduced a new detective representation, the gentleman sleuth morphed into a hard-boiled private eye, named the Transitional Detective. ... The hard-boiled detective came to the screen as the hero of film noir. Film noir is generally regarded as genre or film style that a group of films that were visually, as well as morally, dark. ... Film noir seems to have particular reference to the veterans returning from World War II who struggled with feelings of displacement, and the aftermath of their society changing, unemployment, changing gender roles, and alienation.
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