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Killing

Killing

Alberti, John

Paperback

Series: TV Milestones

TelevisionGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0814342124
ISBN13: 9780814342121
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: May 1 2017
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

Although it lasted only four seasons and just forty-four episodes, The Killing attracted considerable critical notice and sparked an equally lively debate about its distinctive style and innovative approach to the television staple of the police procedural. A product of the turn toward revisionist quality television in the post-broadcast era, The Killing also stands as a pioneering example of the changing gender dynamics of early twenty-first-century television. Author John Alberti looks at how the show's focus shifts the police procedural away from the idea that solving the mystery of whodunit means resolving the crime, and toward dealing with the ongoing psychological aftermath of crime and violence on social and family relationships. This attention to what creator and producer Veena Sud describes as the real cost of murder defines The Killing as a milestone feminist revision of the crime thriller and helps explain why it has provoked such strong critical reactions and fan loyalty.

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