Policing across borders: Line of Duty and the politics of national identity. Issue 2 (1st October 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Joy, Stuart
• Is Part Of: Journal of popular television. Volume 2:Issue 2(2014)
• Page Start: 155
• Page End: 172
• Publication Date: 2014-10-01
• Subjects: Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 791.4505
• DOI: 10.1386/jptv.2.2.155_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2046-9861

Abstract

In this article, I argue that the first series of Line of Duty (2012–) invites viewers to consider the wider politicized function of the police as well as depictions of criminality in Britain. I describe how the series reflects a broader shift in the understanding of the British crime drama as not simply a reproduction of national concerns, but in relation to new discourses of transnational anxiety. I analyse how representations of crime and criminality are viewed through the lens of current news media trends to examine the relationship between the British crime drama and the wider socio-economic and political concerns in which articulations of both national and increasingly transnational identities can become visible.