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Miami Vice : Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television - James Lyons

Miami Vice

By: James Lyons

Paperback | 1 February 2010 | Edition Number 1

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<i>Miami Vice</i> captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs&#160;and offers&#160;students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. <ul> <li> <div>Explores <i>Miami Vice</i>&#8217;s combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, &#8216;high concept&#8217; action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrial moments when it burst onto the network</div> <li> <div>Introduces readers to major components of televisual analysis--style, storytelling, the television show as commodity and ideological critique-- that illustrate the show&#8217;s unique features</div> <li> <div>Provides a model for students&#8217; own assessment of other shows, and confirms precisely how--and on what terms--<i>Miami Vice</i> redefined the police drama and an era</div> </ul>
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"All in all, the careful, detailed analysis of the various contexts of network television turns this study into a useful handbook especially for film students who can use it as blueprint for analysing other series." (European Journal of American Studies, 2011)

"[Lyons] displays, in addition to still other virtues, an attentiveness to visual texture and theme as refined as that in the best film criticism. This book offers the richest account of a single television program I've ever read, describing a defining show of the Reagan years...Lyons's treatment of the series' conflicted ideology is equally illuminating." (Cinema Journal, 1 June 2011)

 

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