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Tag archive for ‘Procedurals’

<p></p><p>Trauma Time: Family, Community and Criminality in <em>Close to Home</em>

Trauma Time: Family, Community and Criminality in Close to Home

by: Diane Negra / University of East Anglia
How CBS’ Close to Home redefines motherhood, community and family values.

At Last, TV for People Just Like Me

by: Christopher Anderson / Indiana University
I hate your favorite television show. Honestly. I loathe it. You love it, I know. But it’s a stinking pile of shit.

<p></p><p>TV Legal Drama Speaks to U.S. Citizens

TV Legal Drama Speaks to U.S. Citizens

by: Mary Beth Haralovich / University of Arizona
In the early 1970s, Dirty Harry famously took on the issue of constitutional rights for US citizens suspected of crimes. Clint Eastwood’s cop movie launched the popular narrative enigma that would influence decades of television legal drama . . .