Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. ONLY THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED: DRAGNET, THE POLICE PROCEDURAL, AND POSTWAR CULTURE, Claudia Calhoun, hardcover with unclipped dust jacket (price never printed), stated first edition, illustrated, 2022. BOOK CONDITION: fine. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. No signature or bookplate of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The gray boards are in fine condition. The dust jacket is in fine condition. 9 x 6, 177 pages, 15 ounces XX [From the back cover and dust jacket flaps] The history of television is one of serial reinvention in response to shifting politics, tastes, and technologies. Yet one genre has been remarkably persistent: the cop show. Claudia Calhoun returns to Dragnet, the pioneering police procedural and an early transmedia franchise, appearing on radio in 1949, on TV and in film in the 1950s, and in later revivals. More than a popular entertainment, Dragnet was a signifier of America's postwar confidence in government institutions and a publicity vehicle for the Los Angeles Police Department. Only the Names Have Been Changed shows how Dragnet's "realistic" storytelling resonated across postwar culture. Calhoun traces Dragnet's "semi-documentary" predecessors, an often-overlooked film cycle that instructed citizens in the value of civic institutions and in their responsibility to the criminal justice system. Jack Webb, Dragnet's creator, worked directly with the LAPD as he produced a series that would likewise inspire public trust by presenting day-to-day procedural justice rather than shootouts and wild capers. Yet this realism also set aside the seething racial tensions of Los Angeles as it was. Dragnet emerges as a foundational text, one that taught audiences to see police as everyday heroes not only on TV but also in daily life, a lesson that has come under scrutny as Americans increasingly seek to redefine the relationship between policing and public safety. XX CLAUDIA CALHOUN is an assistant professor of visual and performing arts at Fairfield University. XX Dragnet is one of the most important and influential US media texts of the twentieth century, but it has not gotten the critical attention it deserves until now. Only the Names Have Been Changed provides an essential take on this seminal series, revealing the depths of Dragnet's cultural impact on how America thinks about policing, crime, and the cop show (JASON MITTELL, author of Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling). XX Only the Names Have Been Changed is an outstanding book showing the connection between the aesthetics of policing from midcentury media and the strategies we see today. Claudia Calhoun achieves this story brilliantly through the prism of Dragnet, its origins, and contexts, in doing so making a vital contribution to the history of radio and of popular culture more broadly. This book is an essential source for historicizing the pressing need for police transformation (NEIL VERN, author of Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama). Seller Inventory # 002499

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Calhoun, Claudia

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