Contemporary British television crime drama
cops on the box

The British crime drama: new adventures in an established genre. Bad sex, target culture and the anti-terror state: new contexts for the British television police series / Charlotte Brunsdon -- Unlocking the mechanism of murder: forensic humanism and contemporary crime drama / Martin Willis -- Walking Whitechapel: Ripper Street, Whitechapel, and place in the gothic crime drama / Rebecca Williams -- Crime and punishment: Jimmy McGovern's Accused and Common / Steve Blandford -- The police. Women cops on the box: female detection in the British police procedural / Ruth McElroy -- Unfettered bureaucracy, narrative collapse: postmodern enemies in Line of duty / Manel Morales -- The blitz detective: Foyle's war, history, genre and contemporary politics / Stephen Lacey -- Cars, places and spaces in police drama / Jonathan Bignell -- Exporting and adapting crime. Crime drama and channel branding: ITV and Broadchurch / Ross Garner -- Bodies of evidence: European crime series, BBC Four and translating (global) (in) justice into (national) public television culture / Janet McCabe -- Exporting englishness: Agatha Christies's Poirot / Mary Brewer -- Lost in translation: tv remakes, transatlantic determinants and the failure of Prime suspect US / Deborah Jermyn