Columbo

Make Me a Perfect Murder

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Amelie Hastie

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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, Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-06
Mått149 x 210 x 20 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieSpin-Offs
Antal sidor256
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478020677

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Acknowledgments ixPrologue: Humble Origins and Dogged Returns xvIntroduction: Murder by the Book 11. Mapping the Detective: Falk’s Early Drives 242. Best-Selling Mystery Team: Columbo and Televisual Collaboration 383. “I’m Fascinated by Money”: Rank, File, and Gumshoe Detection 724. Special Guest Stars: Hollywood Icons and Repeat Offenders 955. Between Columbo and Cassavetes: A Familial Pack 1196. “An Obsessive Preoccupation with Gadgetry”: Columbo’s Investigation of Media Technologies 1447. Columbo’s Reign: Of Life and Death and Detection 172Epilogue: Loving and Leaving Columbo 197Notes 201Bibliography 219Index 225

“Amelie Hastie makes a compelling case for revisiting a series that had a global footprint in its heyday and continues to be a staple in rerun syndication. Hastie uses Columbo’s famous tagline ‘Just one more thing’ to think about the series-and by extension television as cultural form-in relation to a complex intertextual network of quotation, iteration, and intertexts. Columbo is an exciting book by a wonderful critic, historian, and writer.” - Lynn Spigel, author of (TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life) “In Columbo, Amelie Hastie offers a comprehensive look at this essential popular television show, explaining its iconic status in the landscape of American popular culture along with the iconic status of its lead actor, Peter Falk. Hastie provides extensive information about the production history of the series as well as an analysis of specific motifs and narratives. Columbo will stand as the go-to work for study of the series.” - Dana Polan, Martin Scorsese Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University