Download or read book American TV Detective Dramas written by Mareike Jenner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way detectives access and attain the 'truth' about a crime is an important indicator of how they relate to contemporary political developments. This book explores these methods of detection and positions the genre in a specific political, aesthetic, narrative and industrial context.