{"product_id":"columbo-amelie-hastie-9781478025450","title":"Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder","description":"For decades, generations of television fans have been enraptured by Lt. Columbo, played by Peter Falk, as he unravels clues to catch killers who believe they are above the law. In her investigation of the 1970s series cocreated by Richard Levinson and William Link, Amelie Hastie explores television history through an emphasis on issues of stardom, authorship, and its interconnections with classical and New Hollywood cinema. Through close textual analysis, attentive to issues of class relations and connections to other work by Falk as well as Levinson and Link, \u003ci\u003eColumbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder\u003c\/i\u003e sees American television as an intertextual system, from its origins as a commercial broadcast medium to its iterations within contemporary streaming platforms. Ultimately, Hastie argues, in the titular detective's constant state of learning about cultural trends and media forms, Columbo offers viewers the opportunity to learn with him and, through his tutelage, to become detectives of television itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amelie Hastie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147802545X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478025450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.80w x 0.60d","brand":"Amelie Hastie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44598352871679,"sku":"9781478025450","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_546f30d4-3c53-4b6d-bd7a-7163a9059bfb.jpg?v=1702382036","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/columbo-amelie-hastie-9781478025450","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}