Columbo : a rhetoric of inquiry with resistant responders /: a rhetoric of inquiry with resistant responders. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christyne Berzsenyi.
• Authors: Berzsenyi, Christyne
• Contents: PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING THE LIEUTENANT AND HIS VILLAINS Introduction: Introduction to Columbo And Columbo <ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">Columbo, An Inverted Mystery A Snapshot of Television and Film History: Pre-Columbo The Underestimated Detective (1910) Scholarship and the Lieutenant Historical, Literary, and Television Contexts: Shift to Grit and Realism Columbo and the Lieutenant: Literary Influences<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">The Firsts in Short and Long Detective Fiction in English (1841-62) Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Lieutenant Porfiry Petrovitch: Pretenses (1886) Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes: Genius Detective (1887) British Golden Age, Drawing Room Mysteries, The Cozy (1920-40) Characterology and Character-Based Detective TV Shows<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">The Lieutenant with His Sergeants Columbo : A Blend of Genres, Influences, and Deviations Columbo, The Suspect Charmer<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">Suspects as Resistant Responders Charming the Stinging Villains<ol style="list-style-type: lower-roman;">Glamour in Columbo Two Sides of Columbo Presented on a Case by Case Basis<ol style="list-style-type: lower-roman;">Columbo Talks to 'Dog', 'Étude in Black' (1972) Columbo and a Resistant Responder, 'Double Shock' (1973) Dual Personae, 'An Exercise in Fatality' (1974) Columbo and the Ancient Greek Virtue of Sophrosyne Looking for the Right Word: Antipotency The Columbo Killer<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">White, middle-aged, wealthy, intelligent, cultured, successful, arrogant Audience-Villain Relationships and Columbo Columbo ’s Five Types of Villains Columbo, Women of His Investigations, and the Equal Rights Movement<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">The Women’s Professional Movement Strategic Male Chauvinism Columbo ’s Female Villains: Ladylike but Lethal Columbo and the Female Accomplices Columbo and the Female Witnesses PART TWO: COLUMBO’S METHOD OF INVESTIGATION Crime Scene Examination and Ratiocination<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">What Viewers Know and Don’t Know about What Columbo Knows The Working Cop’s Habit of Asking Questions: A Rhetoric of Inquiry<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">Power of Asking Different Types of Questions The Socratic Method of Dialectic, aporia, and Standard Elenchus Techniques of Columbo’s Rhetorical Inquiry Fake Questions Types with Multiple Functions Probing Questions Types with Multiple Functions Killing Them Softly: Irritating the Suspects in Seven Modes<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">Obligating the Suspect with Appeasement Pressure and the Extrication of Any Threat False modesty, Excessive flattery Repeated, Disingenuous Apologies Wasting the Suspect’s Time Circumstantial Speech and Inane Storytelling False Exits, 'Oh, I almost forgot' False Exits, 'Just one more thing' Special Cases of Direct Confrontation: Columbo Gets Mad Columbo Closes the Case: Capture and Consequences<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">Lieutenant Columbo: Virtuous or Villainous? Columbo : The Denouement<p style="text-align: left;">PART THREE: COLUMBO’S LEGACY IN POPULAR CULTURE AND ACADEMIA Television Detectives Influenced by Lieutenant Columbo<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">Spoofing the Lieutenant Using Columbo’s Method in Our Everyday Lives 'Just One More Thing': Columbo and Spectatorship
• Edition: New edition
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 791.4572; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Drama; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Crime; CRIME & MYSTERY; Film theory & criticism; Radio & television industry
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789383201
• Related ISBNs: 9781789383195
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