Columbo: Class Struggle on TV Tonight
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2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51242-9 (ISBN)
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51242-9 (ISBN)
Lilian Mathieu shows that the TV series Columbo owes its success to its implicit but formidable political dimension, as each episode is a class struggle between a rich, famous, cultured or powerful criminal and a humble and blunderer police officer.
After a 35 year-long career on worldwide TV screens, Lieutenant Columbo has become one of the most famous fictional detectives. Lilian Mathieu shows that the Columbo series owes its success to its implicit but formidable political dimension, as each episode is structured as a class struggle between a rich, famous, cultured or powerful criminal and an apparently humble and blunderer police officer dressed in a crumpled raincoat and driving an antique car. Highlighting the contentious context that gave birth to the series in 1968, he shows that the sociology of culture offers intellectual tools to understand how a TV detective story can be appreciated as a joyful class revenge.
After a 35 year-long career on worldwide TV screens, Lieutenant Columbo has become one of the most famous fictional detectives. Lilian Mathieu shows that the Columbo series owes its success to its implicit but formidable political dimension, as each episode is structured as a class struggle between a rich, famous, cultured or powerful criminal and an apparently humble and blunderer police officer dressed in a crumpled raincoat and driving an antique car. Highlighting the contentious context that gave birth to the series in 1968, he shows that the sociology of culture offers intellectual tools to understand how a TV detective story can be appreciated as a joyful class revenge.
Lilian Mathieu is a sociologist and senior researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research (École normal supérieure de Lyon, France). A specialist in social movements, he especially focuses on relations between art, contentious politics and authoritarian regimes.
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Introduction
1 Class against Class
2 A World of Distinction
3 Superiority in Crime
4 A Sense of Limits
5 A Misplaced Police Officer
6 Police Work
7 Just One More Thing …
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.01.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Brill Research Perspectives in Global Youth |
| Übersetzer | Pascal Bataillard |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 151 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-51242-X / 900451242X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-51242-9 / 9789004512429 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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