Synopses & Reviews
Brunsdon puts Law and Order in the broader social context of the 1970s, demonstrating the way the films comment on contemporary scandals about policing and prison, and exploring the outrage that the broadcast caused which led to the year-long exclusion of BBC news teams from prisons.
About the Author
CHARLOTTE BRUNSDON is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of
London in Cinema: The Cinematic City Since 1945 (British Film Institute, 2007);
The Feminist, the Housewife and the Soap Opera (Oxford, 2000) (Selected by Choice as an outstanding academic book of 2000)
Screen Tastes: Soap Opera to Satellite Dishes (London: Routledge, 1997)
Feminist Television Criticism (co-editor, with Julie DAcci and Lynn Spigel) Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1997. 387pps. Reprinted 2000. 2nd edition, edited by Brunsdon and Spigel, Open University Press, 2007.
Films for Women (editor) London, BFI, 1986. Everyday Television: Nationwide (co-author, with David Morley) London, British Film Institute, 1978. Reprinted 1980.
Table of Contents
Introduction: the Original Law and Order
Law and Order in 1978 ‘A tract for our squalid times
The Broadcasting Context
Law and Order and the Television Police Series
Law and Order in the 1970s: Trouble with Criminal Justice
Production: Making it Real
Is this what you Mean by Law and Order?
A Detectives Tale
A Villains Tale
A Briefs Tale
A Prisoners Tale
Reaction: Institutions of Criminal Justice and Institutions of Broadcasting
Programme Credits
Notes and Bibliography
Index