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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Frontier Ambitions and Cowboy Narratives
• 3. Dirty Harry and the Urban Frontier
• 4. Black Crimefighters: Portraits in Blue
• 5. Female Crimefighters Defending the Homefront
• 6. Becoming American: Ethnic Others as Crimefighting Heroes
• 7. Globocops, La Frontera, and America's War on Drugs
• 8. The War on Terror, Homegrown Racism, and the White Knight
• 9. Recruiting the Other as Globocops
• 10. Policing the World: The Last (White) American Standing.