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Policing the World on Screen
- American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Crimefighters
Engelsk Paperback
Policing the World on Screen
- American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Crimefighters
Engelsk Paperback

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This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter-whether cop, detective, or agent-who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means going "rogue" and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence, but excused as self-defense or to serve the greater good. This ends-justifies-means approach dates back to gunfighters taming the western frontier to urban cowboy cops battling urban savagery-first personified by "Dirty" Harry Callahan-and later dispatched in global interventions to vanquish threats to national security. America as the world''s "policeman often means controlling the Other at home and abroad, which also extends American hegemony from the Cold War through the War on Terror. This book also examines pioneering portrayals by males of color and female crimefighters to embody such a social or national defender, which are frustrated by their existence as threats the white knight exists to defeat. 


Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
311
ISBN-13:
9783030248048
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3030248046
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
20 nov 2019
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
148mm
Højde:
210mm
Forlag:
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Oplagsdato:
20 nov 2019
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge