Reading CSI: crime TV under the microscope

Type Book

Rate 0.0 /5

Attracting nearly 17 million viewers regularly, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is America's number one show. With two spin-off series, the CSI franchise has sparked an unprecedented global television success. Reading CSI brings together for the first time critical discussions of all three shows from a wide range of perspectives, with contributions from journalists, television critics and pathology experts. Including a series by series episode guide for each program, this in-depth, comprehensive…

Details

Files

Reviews

Download

Title Statements

Full title :Reading CSI : crime TV under the microscope / edited by Michael Allen.

Summary

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2007.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781441600219, 1441600213, 9780857716101, 0857716107
oclc:ocn313433272
LC Classification:PN1992.77.C75
Dewey Decimal:791.4572

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…

Subjects

Crime on television Criminalité à la télévision CSI, crime scene investigation CSI: crime scene investigation (Televis… CSI: Miami (Television program) CSI: NY (Television program) PERFORMING ARTS -- Television