Columbo

Make Me a Perfect Murder

Amelie Hastie (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2545-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Amelie Hastie is Nancy and Douglas D. Abbey ’71 Professor of Film and Media Studies and English at Amherst College and author of Cupboards of Curiosity: Women, Recollection, and Film History, also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Humble Origins and Dogged Returns xv
Introduction: Murder by the Book 1
1. Mapping the Detective: Falk’s Early Drives 24
2. Best-Selling Mystery Team: Columbo and Televisual Collaboration 38
3. “I’m Fascinated by Money”: Rank, File, and Gumshoe Detection 72
4. Special Guest Stars: Hollywood Icons and Repeat Offenders 95
5. Between Columbo and Cassavetes: A Familial Pack 119
6. “An Obsessive Preoccupation with Gadgetry”: Columbo’s Investigation of Media Technologies 144
7. Columbo’s Reign: Of Life and Death and Detection 172
Epilogue: Loving and Leaving Columbo 197
Notes 201
Bibliography 219
Index 225

Erscheinungsdatum	25.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Spin-Offs
Zusatzinfo	68 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 210 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	1-4780-2545-X / 147802545X
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-2545-0 / 9781478025450
Zustand	Neuware