{"product_id":"columbo-a-rhetoric-of-inquiry-with-resistant-responders-9781789383256","title":"Columbo: A Rhetoric of Inquiry with Resistant","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book presents an analysis of Lieutenant Columbo's investigative method of rhetorical inquiry as seen in the television police procedural \u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e (1968-2003).  With a barrage of questions about minute details and feigned ignorance, the iconic detective enacts a persona of ‘antipotency’ (counter authoritativeness) to affect the villains' underestimation of his attention to inconsistencies, abductive reasoning, and rhetorical efficacy.  In a predominantly dialogue-based investigation, Columbo exhausts his suspects by asking a battery of questions concerning all minor details of the case, which evolves into an aggravating tedious provocation for the killer trying to maintain innocence. Based on the Ancient Greek ideal of Sophrosyne (temperance, restraint) and the Socratic method of questioning to discover truths, the Lieutenant models effective rhetorical inquiry with resistant responders: shy, secretive, anxious, emotionally-disconnected, angry, arrogant, jealous, and, in this case, murderous conversants. While designed to be critical and theoretical, this text strives to be accessible to interdisciplinary readers, practical in application, and amusing for \u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e buffs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE LIEUTENANT AND HIS VILLAINS\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Introduction to Columbo And \u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e, An Inverted Mystery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Snapshot of Television and Film History: Pre-\u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Underestimated Detective (1910)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScholarship and the Lieutenant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHistorical, Literary, and Television Contexts: Shift to Grit and Realism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e and the Lieutenant: Literary Influences \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Firsts in Short and Long Detective Fiction in English (1841-62)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFyodor Dostoevsky’s Lieutenant Porfiry Petrovitch: Pretenses (1886)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: Genius Detective (1887)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBritish Golden Age, Drawing Room Mysteries, The Cozy (1920-40)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eCharacterology and Character-Based Detective TV Shows \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Lieutenant with His Sergeants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e: A Blend of Genres, Influences, and Deviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eColumbo, The Suspect Charmer \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuspects as Resistant Responders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharming the Stinging Villains \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlamour in Columbo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Sides of Columbo Presented on a Case by Case Basis \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eColumbo Talks to 'Dog', 'Étude in Black' (1972)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eColumbo and a Resistant Responder, 'Double Shock' (1973)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eDual Personae, 'An Exercise in Fatality' (1974)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColumbo and the Ancient Greek Virtue of Sophrosyne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLooking for the Right Word: Antipotency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e Killer \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite, middle-aged, wealthy, intelligent, cultured, successful, arrogant\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudience-Villain Relationships and Columbo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e’s Five Types of Villains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eColumbo, Women of His Investigations, and the Equal Rights Movement \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Women’s Professional Movement Strategic Male Chauvinism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e’s Female Villains: Ladylike but Lethal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColumbo and the Female Accomplices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColumbo and the Female Witnesses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003e PART TWO: COLUMBO’S METHOD OF INVESTIGATION\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCrime Scene Examination and Ratiocination \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eWhat Viewers Know and Don’t Know about What Columbo Knows\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Working Cop’s Habit of Asking Questions: A Rhetoric of Inquiry \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePower of Asking Different Types of Questions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Socratic Method of Dialectic, aporia, and Standard Elenchus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTechniques of Columbo’s Rhetorical Inquiry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFake Questions Types with Multiple Functions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProbing Questions Types with Multiple Functions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKilling Them Softly: Irritating the Suspects in Seven Modes \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eObligating the Suspect with Appeasement Pressure and the Extrication of Any Threat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFalse modesty, Excessive flattery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRepeated, Disingenuous Apologies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWasting the Suspect’s Time\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCircumstantial Speech and Inane Storytelling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFalse Exits, 'Oh, I almost forgot'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFalse Exits, 'Just one more thing'\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpecial Cases of Direct Confrontation: Columbo Gets Mad\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eColumbo Closes the Case: Capture and Consequences \u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLieutenant Columbo: Virtuous or Villainous?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eColumbo\u003c\/em\u003e: The Denouement \u003cp\u003ePART THREE: \u003cem\u003eCOLUMBO’S\u003c\/em\u003e LEGACY IN POPULAR CULTURE AND ACADEMIA\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTelevision Detectives Influenced by Lieutenant Columbo \u003col\u003e\u003cli\u003eSpoofing the Lieutenant\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUsing Columbo’s Method in Our Everyday 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