Policing the World on Screen American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Crimefighters /

• Main Author: Yaquinto, Marilyn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Motion pictures-United States.; Film genres.; United States-Study and teaching.; Critical criminology.; Popular Culture.; American Cinema and TV.; Genre.; American Culture.; Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime.; Popular Culture .

This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter-whether cop, detective, or agent-who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means going "rogue" and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence, but excused as self-defen...