Titlebook: American TV Detective Dramas; Serial Investigation Mareike Jenner Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 Crime fict

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Introduction,rican TV detective genre via the methods of detection used to access the ‘truth’ about a crime. To explain what this means, it may be worth looking back a few years to the television landscape of around 2006. During George W. Bush’s second term as president of the USA and amidst revelations of tortu

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Telling Detection: The Narrative Structures of American TV Detective Dramas,r, the detective genre is understood as a vast network of texts that tend to either copy existing structures or react against them. These narrative structures are rooted in the literary traditions of the whodunit in Golden Age fiction, which has proven to be a dominant mode of storytelling for US ne

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,Stabilising Detection: Protecting and Serving the Status Quo 1950–68,s . (NBC, 1949–57) and . (ABC, 1946–51). In cinema, the film series . (dir. James and Taylor 1937) is particularly well-remembered. The film series was an adaptation of a comic strip about a so-called G-Man (short for ‘Government Man’, a colloquial term for FBI agents), which was later also adapted

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,Reforming Detection: Social Change and Political Corruption 1968–80,the domestic hunt for communists taking on a less aggressive tone and the international Cold War posing a more pertinent threat to US citizens with the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, series like . (NBC, 1964–8) or . (NBC, 1965–8), which saw America protected and defeating its enemy over and over agai

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,Disillusioned Detection: DNA and 9/11 2000–10,res of dramas featuring rational-scientific methods of detection. A supposed ‘quality revolution’ led not only to much aesthetic innovation of the familiar whodunit, but also to the production of a small number of texts that featured irrational-subjective methods of detection. Though small in number

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Rethinking Detection: Alternative Methods of Detection,oblem of how to access ‘truth’. This does not necessarily mean that they offer suggestions for alternative methods of detection — a factor that may be related to their indebtedness to a postmodern tradition, which denies singular ‘grand narratives’. But they offer up new ways of how to think about ‘