{"product_id":"making-crime-television-anita-lam-9780415632881","title":"Making Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their writing process, \u003cem\u003eMaking Crime Television: Producing Entertaining Representations of Crime for Television Broadcast \u003c\/em\u003eexamines not only the semiotic relations between ideas about crime, but the material conditions under which those meanings are formulated. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing ethnographic and interview data, Anita Lam considers how textual representations of crime are assembled by various people (including writers, directors, technical consultants, and network executives), technologies (screenwriting software and whiteboards), and texts (newspaper articles and rival crime dramas). The emerging analysis does not project but instead concretely examines what and how television writers and producers know about crime, law and policing. An adequate understanding of the representation of crime, it is maintained, cannot be limited to a content analysis that treats the representation as a final product. Rather, a television representation of crime must be seen as the result of a particular assemblage of logics, people, creative ideas, commercial interests, legal requirements, and broadcasting networks. A fascinating investigation into the relationship between television production, crime, and the law, this book is an accessible and well-researched resource for students and scholars of Law, Media, and Criminology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anita Lam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415632889\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415632881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Anita Lam","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136107131135,"sku":"9780415632881","price":62.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_95b81e52-f51d-4b1d-ad7a-14d9e61668ec.jpg?v=1770160557","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-crime-television-anita-lam-9780415632881","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}