Description
Book SynopsisMiami Vice captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs by offering an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. The volume explores Vice's combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, action films) as well as the social and cultural moments when it burst onto the network.
Trade Review"All in all, the careful, detailed analysis of the various contexts of network television turns this study into a useful handbook especially for film students who can use it as blueprint for analysing other series." (European Journal of American Studies, 2011)
"[Lyons] displays, in addition to still other virtues, an attentiveness to visual texture and theme as refined as that in the best film criticism. This book offers the richest account of a single television program I've ever read, describing a defining show of the Reagan years...Lyons's treatment of the series' conflicted ideology is equally illuminating." (Cinema Journal, 1 June 2011)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction.
1. I Want My MTV Cops: Miami Vice as Television Commodity.
2. Guns, Glitter, and Glamour: Styling the Show.
3. Losing the Plot?: Storytelling in Miami Vice.
4. Risky Business: the Cultural Politics of Vice.
Afterword.
Broadcast Date Notes.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
