Contemporary British Television Crime Drama

Ruth McElroy is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of South Wales, UK. She is editor, with Stephen Lacey, of Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York, (2012), University of Wales Press She currently leads an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded international network on Television in Small Nations.

• ForewordJonathan Nichols-PethickIntroductionRuth McElroyPart I: The British Crime Drama – new adventures in an established genre1. Bad sex, target culture and the anti-terror state: new contexts for the British television police seriesCharlotte Brunsdon2. Unlocking the Mechanism of Murder: Forensic Humanism and Contemporary Crime DramaMartin Willis3. Walking Whitechapel: Ripper Street, Whitechapel, and Place in the Gothic Crime DramaRebecca Williams4. Crime and Punishment - Jimmy McGovern’s Accused and Common Steve BlandfordPart II: The Police5. Women Cops on the Box: Female Detection in the British Police ProceduralRuth McElroy6. Unfettered Bureaucracy, Narrative Collapse: Postmodern Enemies in Line of DutyManel Morales7. The Blitz Detective: Foyle’s War, History, Genre and Contemporary PoliticsStephen Lacey8. Cars, Places and Spaces in Police Drama Jonathan BignellPart III: Exporting and adapting crime9. Crime Drama and Channel Branding: ITV and Broadchurch Ross Garner10. Bodies of Evidence: European Crime Series, BBC Four and Translating (Global) (In) Justice into (National) Public Television CultureJanet McCabe11. Exporting Englishness: Agatha Christies’s Poirot Mary Brewer12. Lost in Translation – TV remakes, transatlantic determinants and the failure of Prime Suspect US Deborah Jermyn