
Reading 'CSI'
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The varied, intellectually curious and often polemic responses to CSI from critics, journalists and industry professionals focus on a range of issues from the pornographic quality of the CGI effects, the relationship of characters to their narratives, and the reaction of the fans, to the semiotics of Horatio Caine's sunglasses. This in depth, compulsive read also includes a full episode guide.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Regular Cast List
- PART 1: 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: Reprinted from The Observer, Sunday 13 August 2006 - Andrew Anthony
- PART 2: 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 3: 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 - Lucis Rahilly
- PART 4: 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 Confirm the Story Told by the Potato': Materials without Motives in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Silke P
- 14. Mac's Melancholia: Scripting Trauma, 9/11 and Bodily Absence in CSI: NY - Janet McCabe
- PART 5: DNA: Industry and Reception
- 15. Five's Finest: the Import of CSI to British Television - Simone Knox
- 16. RTE and the CSI Franchise - Dermot Horan
- 17. Dissecting CSI: The View from the Trainee and the Professional: Daryl Vinall and Shelly Robinson
- 18. Investigating 'CSI Television Fandom': Fans' Textual Paths through the Franchise - Matt Hills and Amy Luther
- 19. The CSI Phenomenon - David Bianculli
- Notes
- Episode Guide
- Film and TV Guide
- Bibliography
- Index
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