SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Films: | Television: Reasonable Doubts

»Reasonable Doubts is an American police drama television series created by Robert Singer, which broadcast in the United States by NBC that ran from September 26, 1991, to April 27, 1993.
Reasonable Doubts is primarily about the working relationship between Assistant District Attorney Tess Kaufman (Marlee Matlin), a prosecutor very sensitive to the rights of the accused, and hard-charging, gruff Detective Dicky Cobb (Mark Harmon), an old-fashioned cop with a "bust-the-perps" attitude. The reason that these two are assigned to work together was that Cobb is one of the few available police officers who knows sign language, and Tess, like the actress who portrayed her, is deaf. Dicky is usually more frustrated by Tess' sympathy for the suspects than by her deafness; he also repeats what Tess says back to her to make sure that he understood it (Tess can also read lips) and this allowed the audience to understand her part of the dialogue. Dicky also spoke as he signed to Tess.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

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II. Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History

III. Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

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[Info] Moorti, Sujata. Screening Sexuality: Democratic Sphere and Television Representations of Rape. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Maryland at College Park, 1995.

[Info] Moorti, Sujata. Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Spheres. Albany 2002.

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