Miami Vice
ISBN: 9781444319033
Platform/Publisher: WOL / John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited

Miami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. Explores Miami Vice 's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept' action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrial moments when it burst onto the network Introduces readers to major components of televisual analysis--style, storytelling, the television show as commodity and ideological critique-- that illustrate the show's unique features Provides a model for students' own assessment of other shows, and confirms precisely how--and on what terms-- Miami Vice redefined the police drama and an era

James Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter. His publications include Quality Popular Television (2003), Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (2004), and Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet (2007).

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