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- Title
Policing the Crime Drama: Radio Noir, Dragnet, and Jack Webb's Maladjusted Text.
- Authors
Ousborne, Jeff
- Abstract
The links between film noir and "radio noir" crime drama remain largely unexamined. The author explores the relationship between Jack Webb's early radio-noir mystery program Pat Novak, for Hire and his work on the semi-documentary police procedural Dragnet. The programs suggest the porous borders of film, radio, and television, which together shed light on aesthetic, thematic, generic, and cultural shifts in the development of noir and procedural drama across different media.
- Subjects
NOIR fiction; DRAGNET (TV program); WEBB, Jack, 1920-1982; FILM noir; RADIO crime programs; TELEVISION dramas; FICTION genres
- Publication
Clues: A Journal of Detection (McFarland & Company), 2016, Vol 34, Issue 2, p32
- ISSN
0742-4248
- Publication type
Article