Ruth McElroy is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of South Wales, UK. She is editor, with Stephen Lacey, of Life on Mars: From Manchester to New York, (2012), University of Wales Press She currently leads an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded international network on Television in Small Nations.

Foreword

Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

Introduction

Ruth McElroy

Part I: The British Crime Drama - new adventures in an established genre

1. Bad sex, target culture and the anti-terror state: new contexts for the British television police series

Charlotte Brunsdon

2. Unlocking the Mechanism of Murder: Forensic Humanism and Contemporary Crime Drama

Martin Willis

3. Walking Whitechapel: Ripper Street, Whitechapel, and Place in the Gothic Crime Drama

Rebecca Williams

4. Crime and Punishment - Jimmy McGovern's Accused and Common

Steve Blandford

Part II: The Police

5. Women Cops on the Box: Female Detection in the British Police Procedural

Ruth McElroy

6. Unfettered Bureaucracy, Narrative Collapse: Postmodern Enemies in Line of Duty

Manel Morales

7. The Blitz Detective: Foyle's War, History, Genre and Contemporary Politics

Stephen Lacey

8. Cars, Places and Spaces in Police Drama

Jonathan Bignell

Part III: Exporting and adapting crime

9. Crime Drama and Channel Branding: ITV and Broadchurch

Ross Garner

10. Bodies of Evidence: European Crime Series, BBC Four and Translating (Global) (In) Justice into (National) Public Television Culture

Janet McCabe

11. Exporting Englishness: Agatha Christies's Poirot

Mary Brewer

12. Lost in Translation - TV remakes, transatlantic determinants and the failure of Prime Suspect US

Deborah Jermyn