Only the Names Have Been Changed: Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture
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Winner of the 2022 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
In the postwar era, the police procedural series Dragnet informed Americans on the workings of the criminal justice system and instructed them in their responsibilities as citizens.
Among shifting politics, tastes, and technology in television history, one genre has been remarkably persistent: the cop show. Claudia Calhoun returns to Dragnet, the pioneering police procedural and an early transmedia...























