Philosopher and writer Albert Camus defined gangster morality as ‘an inexhaustible round of triumph and revenge, defeat and resentment’. Sound familiar?
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Sally Breen wanted to know more about real police work after she met a Queensland top cop who seemed good. The stories she found sit under her skin like lava.
The spectre of the Troubles provides fertile drama for cop shows.
Can we stop our current political free-fall? Perhaps this dystopian short offers a way out.
The Fall’s frontman was the ultimate pop outsider who never lost his working-class Manchester roots.
The search for old or new African sounds is based around a nostalgia culture that is endemic to Anglo-American popular music.
The Fall writer Alan Cubitt is ‘hurt and upset’ at being accused of misogyny. But maybe misogyny isn’t the point.
On screen violence against women is increasingly detailed, intimate and frighteningly authentic – but there’s often just no need.
Female characters are currently dominating our crime dramas on television worldwide, with shows such as British detective series Scott and Bailey, Danish cop show The Killing, Danish/ Swedish co-production…
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