1. One of the silent screen's first images of police - the Keystone Cops were a comic, inept group of bumbling police officers.

2. Film Noir refers to a style of detective film that was popular in the 1940s. It was literally, "black film," using dark lighting and shadow (remember, they were filmed in black and white!) to create an atmosphere of gloom and suspense as the film's world-weary anti-hero fought crime. These films counted on suspense, rather than action, to keep an audience's attention.
 

3. The Hayes Production Code was a voluntary code implemented by Hollywood in 1934 to control the glorifying of the criminal and the accompanying violence in gangster films like those in Answer #4. The code stipulated that "crime could not pay" in the movies, and it remained in place until 1960!
 

4. Three of the most famous gangster films from the 1930s include: Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, and Scarface: The Shame of a Nation. In these films, gangsters were portrayed as controlling society, the police either ineffectual or not included at all.
 

5. J. Edgar Hoover was the head of the FBI during this period. He was instrumental in changing police stereotypes by creating a positive image of FBI agents as law enforcers in films such as "G" Men.

6. Sam Spade

7. The Naked City attempted to portray police work in a realistic manner - right down to the more tedious duties like paperwork and record-keeping. It became the prototype for 1960s TV series like Dragnet.
 

8. The classic 1960s cop show would have to be Dragnet, with its emphasis on "(white) model cops who get their man." Adam-12andHighway Patrolalso followed this formula.

Towards the late 1960s the face of TV police began to change, with shows like The Mod Squad whichfeatured three funky young people (including one female and one black member) who were recruited to fight crime after they had run into trouble with the law themselves. The Rookies featured television's first uniformed black officer and Ironside featured a detective hero in a wheelchair.
 

9. Shows like Miami Vice offered a violent, rock video image of cops as brutalizers. Cagney and Lacey was applauded as one of the few television shows to realistically portray female police officers. (Compared to Police Woman,which featured Angie Dickenson fighting crime in skin-tight clothes and high heels.) Hill Street Blues was one of the first group-based crime dramas, interweaving several stories into the series, and using an ensemble cast. Chipsand Police Storyalso followed this style. Columbo depicted a rumpled, low-key homicide lieutenant whose rambling manner hid a razor-sharp mind. Hawaii Five-0was the longest continuous-run police series in television history, airing from September 1968 to April 1980. Sci-fi policing can be seen in the Bionic Man and the Bionic Woman.
 

10. Possible choices include: 

Dirty Harry - and any of its sequels: Magnum Force (1973), The Enforcer (1976), Sudden Impact (1983), and The Dead Pool (1988) - The French Connection, Serpico, Robocop, Blade Runner and Lethal Weapon.

Students might also include "vigilante justice" films like the Batman and Terminator series
 

11. Cops, Top Cops, America's Most Wanted, Rescue 911, Unsolved Mysteries 
 
 

12. Answers will vary.

13.

a. Philip Marlowe  b. Sam Spade c. Dirty Harry d. Popeye Doyle e. Serpico f. Columbo g. Dana Scully h. Police Woman i. The Mod Squad j. Charlie's Angels k. NYPD Blue l. Ace Ventura m. Cagney and Lacey

13. Dick Powell  12. Humphrey Bogart 2. Clint Eastwood 9. Gene Hackman 11. Al Pacino 7. Peter Falk 1. Gillian Anderson 8. Angie Dickenson 10. Peggy Lipton 6. Farah Fawcett 5. Jimmy Smits 4. Jim Carey 3. Sharon Gless

Bonus Question: Name a Canadian Cop Show! (3)

For a listing of current Canadian police-based shows, have students look at the program listings on the Web sites for Canadian television stations. Previous Canadian cop shows include Forever Knight, Sirens, Sweating Bullets, Fly by Night, Wojeck, The Collaborators, Sidestreetsand Night Heat. 
  

Total possible points: 45