Dragnet Nation

Dragnet Nation

Author: Julia Angwin

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-02-25

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0805098070

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An investigative journalist offers a revealing look at how the government, private companies, and criminals use technology to indiscriminately sweep up vast amounts of our personal data, and discusses results from a number of experiments she conducted to try and protect herself.


Dragnet

Dragnet

Author: Scott V. Palmer

Publisher:

Published: 2018-05-28

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781945604607

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In 1966, Jack Webb re-launched the Dragnet series with a pilot film "Dragnet." For this series, Harry Morgan was on hand as Webb's partner, Officer Bill Gannon. The show was set again in Los Angeles. Webb directed the series. This book chronicles the 1967-70 series, with complete cast lists, photographs, story synopses, and original air dates.


TV's Biggest Hits

TV's Biggest Hits

Author: Jon Burlingame

Publisher: Schirmer Trade Books

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780028703244

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Everybody loves TV themes - from the silly "Mr. Ed" and "The Addams Family" to the intense "Mission: Impossible" and "Peter Gunn" to the atmospheric "Hill Street Blues" and "The X-Files". But few people know how this music is made, or the stories of the men and women who have worked tirelessly (and often anonymously) to create it. This book offers the complete story of this important musical style, giving it the serious, and colorfully anecdotal, history it deserves. Divided into chapters on each genre, Burlingame provides the real stories of the composers who worked behind the scenes to create the memorable music we all love. Among those who have written and performed for television include many famous musicians - like jazz pianists Dave Brubeck and Duke Ellington, arranger/producer Quincy Jones, film music giant John Williams, Broadway composer Richard Rodgers, and classical composer Morton Gould. Illustrated throughout with rare photos of the composers at work, this is a fascinating story of how a new genre of musical artistry was created.


My Name's Friday

My Name's Friday

Author: Michael J. Hayde

Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781581821901

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A history of the police drama Dragnet and its creator and producer Jack Webb, from its beginnings as a successful radio show to its acclaimed run on television in the 1950s and later color version in the 1960s.


The Dragnet

The Dragnet

Author: Bhaskar Thakuria

Publisher: Partridge Publishing

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1543704220

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‘Alexis is a womanizer recovering from a temporary illness that cut short his previous associations. He was coming to terms with his new life that limits his affairs and leaves him with his own thoughts. But fate had to intervene in the form of a university girl he befriends who gets killed suddenly, leaving him with the unfinished remains of a novel by his favourite writer. That manuscript leads him into a sleepy, mysterious town which was the scene of a disappearance a few months ago. And his pursuit for a successful ending to the novel leads him into a moral and intellectual labyrinth- at once sensual and sinister- that shows no sign of ending.


Dragnet: The Case of the Courteous Killer

Dragnet: The Case of the Courteous Killer

Author: Richard Deming

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1479404713

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The first two bodies were found in Lovers' Lane. The man was dead. His girlfriend, still alive, described the stick-up artist as of medium build, wearing glasses, mild-mannered, and courteous. If was a description that fit half the male population of Los Angeles. It was almost the only clue Joe Friday and Frank Smith had to catch the murderer. Then the courteous killer struck again -- and again! The last time Joe Friday was waiting for him with a gun. When the criminal escaped with only a bullet wound, he vowed revenge -- and mailed an unsigned, misspelled note that read: YOU THINK YOUR A SMART BADGE. NOBODY BURNS ME AND LIVES, COP. START SWEATING.


Predict and Surveil

Predict and Surveil

Author: Sarah Brayne

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020-10-22

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0190684097

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Predict and Surveil offers an unprecedented, inside look at how police use big data and new surveillance technologies. Sarah Brayne conducted years of fieldwork with the LAPD--one of the largest and most technically advanced law enforcement agencies in the world-to reveal the unmet promises and very real perils of police use of data--driven surveillance and analytics.


Only the Names Have Been Changed

Only the Names Have Been Changed

Author: Claudia Calhoun

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2022-10-18

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1477325417

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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 franchise, appearing on radio in 1949, on TV and in film in the 1950s, and in later revivals. More than a popular entertainment, Dragnet was a signifier of America’s postwar confidence in government institutions—and a publicity vehicle for the Los Angeles Police Department. Only the Names Have Been Changed shows how Dragnet’s “realistic” storytelling resonated across postwar culture. Calhoun traces Dragnet’s “semi-documentary” predecessors, and shows how Jack Webb, Dragnet’s creator, worked directly with the LAPD as he produced a series that would likewise inspire public trust by presenting day-to-day procedural justice, rather than shootouts and wild capers. Yet this realism also set aside the seething racial tensions of Los Angeles as it was. Dragnet emerges as a foundational text, one that taught audiences to see police as everyday heroes not only on TV but also in daily life, a lesson that has come under scrutiny as Americans increasingly seek to redefine the relationship between policing and public safety.