Glenn Stewart published Columbo Explains the Seventies: A TV Cop’s Pop Culture Journey in February with Bonaventure Press. The book explores how Columbo’s TV popularity stems partly from the character sharing many values with his seventies audience, reflecting many socio-cultural issues of the era. Stewart examines how Columbo highlights class conflict, power struggles, feminism, race relations, sex, technology, media, psychology, politics, and violence, revealing the ways this TV cop is a product of his particular time.
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Class of 1979