Miami Vice

<i>Miami Vice</i> captures the glitter and glamour embodied by Crockett and Tubbs and offers students an anatomy of a ground-breaking work in the police procedural genre. <ul> <li> <div>Explores <i>Miami Vice</i>’s combination of disparate influences (MTV, film noir, soap opera, ‘high concept’ action films) as well as the social, cultural and industrial moments when it burst onto the network</div> </li> <li> <div>Introduces readers to major components of televisual analysis–style, storytelling, the television show as commodity and ideological critique– that illustrate the show’s unique features</div> </li> <li> <div>Provides a model for students’ own assessment of other shows, and confirms precisely how–and on what terms–<i>Miami Vice</i> redefined the police drama and an era</div> </li> </ul>