Beyond Dixon of Dock Green: Early British Police Series
Book Details
Author(s)
Susan Sydney-Smith
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
ISBN / ASIN
186064824X
ISBN-13
9781860648243
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Sales Rank
#5,845,798
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Based on original archive research, this book traces the emergence of a distinctly British form of TV entertainment: the early BBC uniformed police series. Challenging the commonly held assumption that the genre began with the 1955 series ""Dixon of Dock Green"", Susan Sydney-Smith suggests that in fact these series were shaped by television’s own evolution in social function from the relaying of news to the replaying of stories.
