TY - JOUR PY - 2003// TI - "These are our stories": Trauma, Form, and the Screen Phenomenon of Law and Order JO - Discourse A1 - Lee, Susanna SP - 81 EP - 97 VL - 25 IS - 1 N2 - This paper examines the role of the modern television crime drama as a forum for working through the trauma of living in a violent culture. It concentrates on the most popular of American television crime dramas, Law and Order, to discover how the American public relates—and wishes it related—to violence. It explores the fantasy of menace and protection that this drama represents and, finally, considers how that fantasy operates in political discourse about terrorism and the threat to public security.

LA - SN - 1522-5321 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dis.2004.0007 ID - ref1 ER -