Policing the World on Screen: American Mythologies and Hollywood's Rogue Crimefighters

by Marilyn Yaquinto

This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter--whether cop, detective, or agent--who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means going "rogue" and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence, but excused as self-defense or to serve the greater good. This ends-justifies-means approach dates back to gunfighters taming the western frontier to urban cowboy cops battling urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030248046
• ISBN13: 9783030248048
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"