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 commodi...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments. Introduction.
1. I Want My MTV Cops: Miami Vice as Television
Commodity.
2. Guns, Glitter, and Glamour: Styling the Show.
3. Losing the Plot?...
Über den Autor
James Lyons is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter, where he researches and publishes in the area of contemporary American television. His publicat...