Post liberalism

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http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/vol12is1/wilson.pdf“">Let's Work out the Details”: Interrogation and Deception in Prime Time (pdf)

By Christopher P. Wilson Boston College

ABSTRACT

This essay is a literary and cultural examination of how practices of police interrogation have been adapted to prime-time American television, specifically on the police drama N.Y.P.D. Blue, co-produced by screenwriter David Milch and former N.Y.P.D. Detective Bill Clark. Whereas most scholarship focuses on the Miranda threshold and the presence of coercion in interrogation, my emphasis centers on police deception, and the creative process that produces its representation. Using the model provided by Pierre Bourdieu, I argue that the collaboration between Milch and Clark--the meeting of rival professional "posts" and "dispositions"--fashions a dramatic technique with a strikingly contemporary import. Rather than expressing a classically conservative ethos, I argue interrogation on N.Y.P.D. Blue helps construct the ideological coherence of a current sensibility more appropriately termed "post-liberal”: a post-liberal realism, aesthetic and political, in which a self-image of cosmopolitan frankness, personal growth, and pluralistic tolerance has ostensibly been shaped by a new fatalism about the need for law enforcement.

The paper is from an Interesting site about pop culture and politics. http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/index.html

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