Only the Names Have Been Changed: Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture Calhoun Claudia
Only the Names Have Been Changed: Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture Calhoun Claudia Among shifting politics, tastes, and technology in television history, one genre has been…
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Only the Names Have Been Changed: Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture Calhoun Claudia
Among shifting politics, tastes, and technology in television history, one genre has been remarkably persistent: cop shows. More than a popular entertainment, Dragnet was a signifier of America's postwar confidence in government institutions--and a publicity vehicle for the Los Angeles Police Department.Only the Names Have Been Changed shows how Dragnet's "realistic" storytelling resonated across postwar culture. Claudia Calhoun returns to Dragnet, the pioneering police procedural and an early transmedia franchise, appearing on radio in 1949, on TV and in film in the 1950s, and in later revivals.
Calhoun traces Dragnet's "semi-documentary" predecessors, and shows how Jack Webb, Dragnet's creator, worked directly with the LAPD as he produced a series that would likewise inspire public trust by presenting day-to-day procedural justice,