Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America - Softcover

Wilson, Christopher P.

 
9780226901336: Cop Knowledge: Police Power and Cultural Narrative in Twentieth-Century America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226901335 ISBN 13: 9780226901336
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Whether they appear in mystery novels or headline news stories, on prime-time TV or the silver screen, few figures have maintained such an extraordinary hold on the American cultural imagination as modern police officers. Why are we so fascinated with the police and their power? What relation do these pervasive media representations bear to the actual history of modern policing?

Christopher P. Wilson explores these questions by examining narratives of police power in crime news, popular fiction, and film, showing how they both reflect and influence the real strategies of law enforcement on the beat, in the squad room, and in urban politics. He takes us from Theodore Roosevelt's year of reform with the 1890s NYPD to the rise of "community policing," from the classic "police procedural" film The Naked City to the bestselling novels of LAPD veteran Joseph Wambaugh. Wilson concludes by demonstrating the ways in which popular storytelling about police power has been intimately tied to the course of modern liberalism, and to the rising tide of neoconservatism today.

"A thorough, brilliant blend that crosses disciplines."—Choice

"[S]ophisticated, highly theoretical and ambitious. . . . Connects the history of policing to cultural representations of crime, criminals and cops."—Times Literary Supplement

"[A] deeply satisfying approach to the crime narrative. . . . [Wilson] focuses, ultimately, on the role of police power in cultural storytelling."—American Quarterly

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226901335
ISBN 13 
9780226901336
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
294
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