Reading CSI: crime TV under the microscope
This title pieces together the evidence in order to understand what the CSI shows mean to contemporary television culture, both in America and beyond.
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- Full title :Reading CSI : crime TV under the microscope / edited by Michael Allen.
Summary
This title pieces together the evidence in order to understand what the CSI shows mean to contemporary television culture, both in America and beyond.
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- Publication Date:2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Distributed in the United States of America by Palgrave Macmillan, I.B. Tauris
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 274 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781845114282, 1845114280
- oclc:ocn123114543
- LC Classification:PN1992.77.C75
- Dewey Decimal:791.4572
Table of Contents
Part I. This Much We Know : Introductions and Contexts -- Introduction: This Much I Know / Michael Allen -- 1. The Hook and the Look : CSI and the Aesthetics of the Television Crime Series / Sue Turnbull -- 2. No Need to Pathologise / Andrew Anthony -- Part II. Interrogation : Narrative and Narration -- 3. Anatomising Gilbert Grissom : The Structure and Function of the Televisual Character / Roberta Pearson -- 4. So Many Different Ways to Tell It : Multi-Platform Storytelling in CSI / Michael Allen -- 5. CSI at the bfi / Kim Akass -- Part III. Trace : Aesthetics, Style and Form -- 6. Body Matters : Realism, Spectacle and the Corpse in CSI / Deborah Jermyn -- 7. Evidence of Things Unseen : The Pornographic Aesthetic and the Search for Truth in CSI / Elke Weissmann and Karen Boyle -- 8. Who Are They? : Style Codes of the CSI Investigators / Anna Konig -- 9. CSI and Sound / Karen Lury -- 10. The Quintessence of Con : The Las Vegas of CSI / Lucia Rahilly -- Part IV. Forensics : Theoretical Positions -- 11. Reading the Traces / Charlie Gere -- 12. Horatio Caine's Sunglasses and the Criminalist Viewer : "Looking" and "Being Looked at" in CSI: Miami / Patrick West -- 13. "The Bullets Con…
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