“Crime is disease”: Contamination of Media in BBC Sherlock by Eleonora Sasso

“… This paper takes as its starting point the conceptual metaphor “crime is disease” as suggested by George Lakoff in order to advance a new reading of the BBC crime drama television series Sherlock (2010- ) based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes detective stories. …”
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Bad Boys Meet the Swan of Avon: A Re-Visioning of Hamlet in Sons of Anarchy by Burzyńska Katarzyna

“…This article investigates the intersections between Shakespeare’s Hamlet and a popular TV series Sons of Anarchy (SOA), loosely based on the Shakespearean original. The crime drama series revolves around an outlaw motorcycle club that literally “rules” a fictional town in California like an old royal family with its own brutal dynastic power squabbles and dark family secrets. …”
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Reality Crime Programs in Turkish Television: The Notorious Case of Palu Family on Müge Anlı by Tuna Tetik, Dilay Özgüven

“…The crime drama has always been popular on radio and television. …”
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The Mystery of Grace: A Theological Reading of C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces by Simon Caroline J.

“…Till We Have Faces is profitably read at three levels: for its surface story, as a crime drama, and as an exploration of the theological mystery of grace. …”
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The Mother of All Murder Mysteries: 'Los misterios de Laura' by Anja Louis

“…This article explores if and how female identities are still embedded in a phallocentric imaginary and to what extent this series breaks the conventions of crime drama. To this end I discuss Cawelti’s now classic notions on the social function of formula culture such as murder mysteries and combine them in a fruitful discussion with Plantinga’s concepts of character engagement and concern-based construals. …”
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“The Four-Dimensional Art”: On One Animated Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe by Nina A. Moroz

“…However, at the same time the studio was ready to meet the expectation of the mass audience, introducing the parallels with crime drama films. Parmelee and Julian strive to demonstrate multidimensionality and variability of psychic phenomena. …”
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Exploring the appeal of villainous characters in film-induced tourism: perceived charismatic leadership and justice sensitivity by Rui Yao, Jian Yang

“…The study distributed questionnaires to 532 audiences who watched the Chinese police and crime drama titled, The Knockdown (狂飙), and who acquainted themselves with the villainous character Gao Qiqiang (高启强). …”
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Dial M for Markham, McNutley and the Milland Show: Remaking and Reimagining Ray Milland’s Established Cinematic Image for 1950s Television by Gillian Kelly

“…Whilst establishing a new televisual image for Milland, the series conversely borrowed more familiar comedic elements of his cinematic persona as bumbling professors embroiled in ludicrous situations. The crime drama Markham employed other, somewhat opposing, but still recognisable facets of Milland’s established screen persona as tough, virile and suave leading man displayed across his dramas and crime films since the 1930s. …”
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Making progress with Wittgenstein and popular genre film by Urschel, M

“…The introduction begins by analysing the opening scene of a regular episode of a German television crime drama episode, <em>Polizeiruf 110: Er sollte tot…</em> (Germany 2006), directed by Dominik Graf, whose work challenges rigid and narrow definitions of genres and theories in film and genre studies. …”

Il poliziesco radiofonico tra espressività regionale e italiano standard by Mariella Giuliano

“…In this paper two crime drama’s subgenres are analyzed: mafia crime and international crime. …”
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The Geopolitics of Nordic Noir: Representations of current threats and vigilantes in contemporary Danish and Norwegian serial drama by Dodds Klaus, Hochscherf Tobias

“…The “golden age” of Scandinavian television has often been associated with Nordic Noir crime dramas, yet many of the acclaimed serials also engage with geopolitical themes such as migration, cross-border crime, military conflicts, and global terrorism. …”
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Transnational Success Made in Spain by Anja Louis

“…Police dramas are one of the most important genres on television, both to represent social issues and reflect ideological changes. Spanish crime dramas peaked in the 2000s and boasted huge, home-grown success stories, achieving higher ratings than US imports. …”
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Producing Peripheral Locations: Double Marginality in Italian and Danish Television Crime Narratives by Gabriele, Valentina Re

“…Combining representational studies with a production studies perspective on Italian and Danish PSB crime dramas, including a media systemic exploration, we analyse the particular location strategies in a range of profiled series broadcasted by Rai in Italy and TV 2 in Denmark. …”
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Effects of TV crime shows on behavioural development of children by Abdullah, Mudassar, Abdul Rahman, Nik Adzrieman

“…Television crime dramas and shows are very popular all over the world.This popularity is not bound to a certain age group, rather all the TV viewers like these shows very much.Like other countries, dozens of TV channels are telecasting these crime shows in Pakistan.Furthermore, few of the channels telecast crime shows at prime time which attests the popularity of such genre.Some of the media contents behave in morally disputed ways.The crime depictions as re-enactments of TV crime shows are questionable in the field of research signifying diverse cultural contexts.A large number of people are habitual to watch these shows, which may probably come out with negative behavioural outcomes.Especially the children who are at their behavioural developmental phase; are more susceptible to adopt negative behavioural leanings.In this research effort, introduction and detail of TV crime shows in Pakistan are provided, the literature concerning “media as risk factor” in children development is discussed, and relevant theories inferences are deliberated.it was found that media has powerful role in behaviour formulating of children and violence media portrayal (TV crime shows) may appear with grave concerns.Previous scientific literature was reviewed to find and discuss the problem in hand. …”
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Serial engagements : viewer allegiance and contemporary crime television by Mani, Saravanan

“…By analyzing three longform TV crime dramas from the 2000s—The Wire, The Shield, and Breaking Bad—this study examines how TV texts build on their generic expectations and engage with contemporary social crises. …”
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The Relationship Between Crime-Related Television Viewing and Perceptions of the Death Penalty: Results of a Large Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Benedikt Till, Benedikt Till, Florian Arendt, Florian Arendt, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

“…We asked about their weekly amount of television viewing and use of US crime dramas and measured their beliefs on the use of the death penalty in Austria.Results: Although television viewing in general was not associated with erroneous perceptions of the death penalty (i.e., no overall across-the-board cultivation effect), data analysis provided supporting evidence for the idea of a genre-specific cultivation effect: The more US crime shows participants watched, the more likely they were to mistakenly believe that the death penalty is used in Austria. …”
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Light Shadows: Loose Adaptations of Gothic Literature in American TV Series of the 1960s and early 1970s by Dennis Tredy

“…If today’s television landscape is ripe with Gothic or supernatural dramas (True Blood, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural), paranormal crime dramas (X-Files, Grimm) and, on children’s networks, animated or live-action sitcoms about monsters and ghouls trying to fit in at home or at school (Monster High, Every Witch Way), all of this programming can be traced back to its humble origins in the 1960s and 1970s. …”
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