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- Title
Policing across borders: Line of Duty and the politics of national identity.
- Authors
Joy, Stuart
- Abstract
In this article, I argue that the first series of Line of Duty (2012-) invites viewers to consider the wider politicized function of the police as well as depictions of criminality in Britain. I describe how the series reflects a broader shift in the understanding of the British crime drama as not simply a reproduction of national concerns, but in relation to new discourses of transnational anxiety. I analyse how representations of crime and criminality are viewed through the lens of current news media trends to examine the relationship between the British crime drama and the wider socio-economic and political concerns in which articulations of both national and increasingly transnational identities can become visible.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; LINE of Duty (TV program); NATIONALISM in motion pictures; TELEVISION crime programs; CRIME on television
- Publication
Journal of Popular Television, 2014, Vol 2, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
2046-9861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/jptv.2.2.155_1