Calling All Cars
Author: Kathleen Battles
ISBN: 9780816649143
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year first published: 11 May 2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9780816649143
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year first published: 11 May 2010
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback / softback
Calling All CarsThe first book to systematically address the development of crime dramas during the golden age of radio, Calling All Cars explores an important irony: the intimacy of the newest technology of the time helped create an intimate authority-the police as the appropriate force for control-over the citizenry.