Here are a few essays which deal with police reality programming. The first two I only have in conference paper form; however Anna William's essay was published in Camera Obscura sometime in the mid-90s. Ed O'Neil might be able to let you know (on this list) if he's published his essay somewhere. Anna Williams, All in the Family: The Representation of Crime in *America's Most Wanted* Ed O'Neil: The Seen of the Crime: The Construction of the Domesticd in Police Reality Programming Gray Cavender and Lisa Bond-Maupin: Fear and Loathing on Reality Television: An Analysis of *America's Most Wanted* and *Unsolved Mysteries* (Sociological Inquiry, V68 No3, August 1993) Here are two essays which deal with cop shows within wider contexts: Ib Bondebjerg: Public Discourse/Private Fascination: Hybridization in *True-Life-Story* Genres (Media, Culture and Society, V18, Sage Publications 1996) Annalee Newitz: White Savagery and Humiliation, or a New Racial Consciousness in the Media (in White Trash, eds., Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz, Routledge, 1996) Hope one or more of these is helpful, Bethany Ogdon Hampshire College ---------- >From: Michelle McMerrin <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Teaching Magazines crime/police shows >Date: Tue, May 18, 1999, 7:57 AM > >May be a bit outdated, but Televsion Culture by John Fiske (Routledge) >has a good angle on what would be 'classic' cop shows now - Miami Vice, >A Team, Cagney and Lacey. Good for undergrads. > >Hope this helps >Michelle > >---- >For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: >http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]