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

ISBN: 3030248046

ISBN13: 9783030248048

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

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...

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