You’re nicked

You’re nickedThis is the first comprehensive investigation of British television police series from 1955 to the present. It reveals how the popular genre has developed along stylistic, thematic and philosophical lines, simultaneously providing a socio political history of British class, culture and gender.

The themes that emerge from this collection

Contributions to the text explore a series of foundational concepts

A global team of scholars discusses issues such as the international circulation of Hughes’s work

Taking a comprehensive critical and theoretical approach to the role of Shakespeare in educational policy and pedagogy from 1989 to the present

the Cross and the Curve – Withers guides the reader through the complexity of Bush’s art and how it transformed popular culture

Lorca raises the question of women's social status - a controversial question both then and now

and personal responses to its titular question

providing samples and explanations that are valuable as a reference

while allowing the voices of those caught up in the tragedy to be heard

children’s TV and detective shows

the United Kingdom and Chile

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