The Great Cop Pictures
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One of Hollywood’s most vital and lucrative motion picture genres is the police action film. These movies deal with the daily anxiety, danger, and excitement officers face as members of law enforcement teams. Over the decades moviegoers have responded in great numbers to movies focusing on the assorted problems and adventures cops undergo. This book examines nearly 330 American feature films and TV movies from the 1920s, when pictures such as Irish Luck portrayed cops with a jovial Irish stereotype, to hard-hitting action dramas of later decades, such as Lethal Weapon and Colors. Particular attention is given to innovative big-and-small-screen studies of cops under special on-the-job stress. This valuable sourcebook provides extensive cast and technical credits, plot synopsis, and thorough analysis for each movie covered. It also includes radio and TV listings for genre series as well as a detailed bibliography dealing with the psychology of police officers.
About the Author:
James Robert Parish, a Los Angeles-based direct marketing consultant, has written over 75 books, including Complete Actors' Television Credits, Black Action Pictures from Hollywood, The Hollywood Songsters, The RKO Gals, The Elvis Presley Scrapbook, The MGM Stock Company, The Emmy Awards, and The Great...Pictures series.
Press Reviews:
I can't tell you how often your books are used, re-read, and helpful to my writing and research... (Robert Osborne (Hollywood Reporter))
Sui generis, Great Cop Pictures is a fine guide to 330 films broadly representative of this quintessentially American genre. (Wilson Library Bulletin)
As with all of Parish's volumes, the research is reliable, and the book serves as a useful and speedy resource for basic material on the films covered. (Classic Images)
...admirably succeeds in illuminating an important cinematic genre...a valuable addition... (Arba)
...an authoritative and encyclopedic knowledge of these topics...a most commendable and unduplicated addition...remarkably comprehensive and accurate...Recommended for academic and public libraries. (Choice)
...wonderfully intelligent and lively. You've truly done a lot of homework. (Joseph Wambaugh)
...wonderful piece of cake... (Movie Collector's World)
...useful bibliography. Here, as in all of the books in the Scarecrow series, there are many good illustrations. (Deadly Pleasure)
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