ISBN: 1444319043 9781444319040

Category: Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism

Page count: 144

<p><b><i>Miami Vice</i> captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre.</b></p> <ul> <li>Explores <i>Miami Vice</i>'s combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, 'high concept' action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrial moments when it burst onto the network</li> <li>Introduces readers to major components of televisual analysis--style, storytelling, the television show as commodity and ideological critique--that illustrate the show’s unique features</li> <li>Provides a model for students' own assessment of other shows, and confirms precisely how--and on what terms--<i>Miami Vice</i> redefined the police drama and an era</li> </ul>