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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Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Mareike Jenner

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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.

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Book Title: American TV Detective Dramas
Book Subtitle: Serial Investigations
Authors: Mareike Jenner
Series Title: Crime Files
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137425669
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-42565-2Published: 08 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-42566-9Published: 04 February 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-8340
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8359
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 191
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Fiction, Literary History

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