Author: Claudia Calhoun
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477325417
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Among shifting politics, tastes, and technology in television history, 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, and shows how 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 scrutiny as Americans increasingly seek to redefine the relationship between policing and public safety.
Author: Jason Macioge
Publisher: Gadd Books
ISBN: 9780884279105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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Author: Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State
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Category : Names, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Author: Michael B. Cover
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004687424
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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In the treatise On the Change of Names (part of his magnum opus, the Allegorical Commentary), Philo of Alexandria brings his figurative exegesis of the Abraham cycle to its fruition. Taking a cue from Platonist interpreters of Homer's Odyssey, Philo reads Moses's story of Abraham as an account of the soul's progress and perfection. Responding to contemporary critics, who mocked Genesis 17 as uninspired, Philo finds instead a hidden philosophical reflection on the ineffability of the transcendent God, the transformation of souls which recognize their mortal nothingness, the possibility of human faith enabled by peerless faithfulness of God, and the fruit of moral perfection: joy divine, prefigured in the birth of Isaac.
Author: Joseph L. Swick
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450061834
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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The stories you are about to read are true, and all the names were changed to protect the innocent. These are true stories from a police dispatcher, stories about handcuffs and headboards, and some of the dumbest criminals, and how one police dispatcher made a transition from the old school way of doing things to the new, and after twenty-six years of experience, I share some of the most memorable stories. Joseph L. Swick
Author: American Philological Association
Publisher:
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Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Author: American Philological Association
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Category : Philology
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Author: Frederic Gregory Mather
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Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
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A history, accompanied by documentary material and biographical sketches, of the American sympathizers who emigrated to Connecticut after the battle of Long island.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Languages : en
Pages : 790
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