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TV CopsThe Contemporary American Television Police Drama\nAuthor(s): Jonathan Nichols-Pethick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415877886, 978-0415877886\nSynopsis\nThe police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestationsfrom Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wireembodies the full range of the cultural dynamics of television. \n\nExploring the textual, industrial, and social contexts of police shows on American television, this book demonstrates how polices drama play a vital role in the way we understand and engage issues of social order that most of us otherwise experience only in such abstractions as laws and crime statistics. And given the current diffusion and popularity of the form, we might ask a number of questions that deserve se?