James Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter. His publications include Quality Popular Television (2003), Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (2004), and Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet (2007).

"All in all, the careful, detailed analysis of the various contexts of network television turns this study into a useful handbook especially for film students who can use it as blueprint for analysing other series." (European Journal of American Studies, 2011) "[Lyons] displays, in addition to still other virtues, an attentiveness to visual texture and theme as refined as that in the best film criticism. This book offers the richest account of a single television program I've ever read, describing a defining show of the Reagan years...Lyons's treatment of the series' conflicted ideology is equally illuminating." (Cinema Journal, 1 June 2011)

• Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. I Want My MTV Cops: Miami Vice as Television Commodity.2. Guns, Glitter, and Glamour: Styling the Show.3. Losing the Plot?: Storytelling in Miami Vice.4. Risky Business: the Cultural Politics of Vice.Afterword.Broadcast Date Notes.Notes.Bibliography.Index.

James Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter. His publications include Quality Popular Television (2003), Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (2004), and Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet (2007).

"All in all, the careful, detailed analysis of the various contexts of network television turns this study into a useful handbook especially for film students who can use it as blueprint for analysing other series." (European Journal of American Studies, 2011) "[Lyons] displays, in addition to still other virtues, an attentiveness to visual texture and theme as refined as that in the best film criticism. This book offers the richest account of a single television program I've ever read, describing a defining show of the Reagan years...Lyons's treatment of the series' conflicted ideology is equally illuminating." (Cinema Journal, 1 June 2011)

• Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. I Want My MTV Cops: Miami Vice as Television Commodity.2. Guns, Glitter, and Glamour: Styling the Show.3. Losing the Plot?: Storytelling in Miami Vice.4. Risky Business: the Cultural Politics of Vice.Afterword.Broadcast Date Notes.Notes.Bibliography.Index.

James Lyons is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter. His publications include Quality Popular Television (2003), Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America (2004), and Multimedia Histories: From the Magic Lantern to the Internet (2007).

"All in all, the careful, detailed analysis of the various contexts of network television turns this study into a useful handbook especially for film students who can use it as blueprint for analysing other series." (European Journal of American Studies, 2011) "[Lyons] displays, in addition to still other virtues, an attentiveness to visual texture and theme as refined as that in the best film criticism. This book offers the richest account of a single television program I've ever read, describing a defining show of the Reagan years...Lyons's treatment of the series' conflicted ideology is equally illuminating." (Cinema Journal, 1 June 2011)

• Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. I Want My MTV Cops: Miami Vice as Television Commodity.2. Guns, Glitter, and Glamour: Styling the Show.3. Losing the Plot?: Storytelling in Miami Vice.4. Risky Business: the Cultural Politics of Vice.Afterword.Broadcast Date Notes.Notes.Bibliography.Index.