The CSI Effect
Television, Crime, and Governance
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 16. August 2009
310 pages
978-0-7391-3927-1 (ISBN)
Description
CSI has been heralded in many spheres of public discourse as a televisual revolution, its effects on the public unprecedented. The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance demonstrates that CSI's appeal cannot be disentangled from either its production as a televisual text or the broader discourses and practices that circulate within our social landscape. This interdisciplinary collection bridges the gap between the study of media, particularly popular culture media, and the study of crime. The contributors consider the points of intersection between these very different realms of scholarship and in so doing foster the development of a new set of theoretical languages in which the mediated spectacle of crime and criminalization can be carefully considered. This timely and groundbreaking volume is bound to intrigue both scholars and CSI enthusiasts alike.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7391-3927-1 (9780739139271)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- CSI as Neoliberalism: An Introduction
- Part I. PRODUCING JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND TELEVISION DRAMA
- Chapter 1. Science Fiction or Social Fact?
- Chapter 2. The Science and Careers of CSI
- Chapter 3. CSI and Law & Order
- Chapter 4. Generic Difference and Innovation in CSI
- Part II. BODIES OF EVIDENCE
- Chapter5. Corpses, Spectacle, Illusion
- Chapter 6. The City of Our Times
- Chapter 7. The Crime Scene, the Evidential Fetish, and the Usable Past
- Part III. LATE MODERN SUBJECTS
- Chapter 8. Not the Usual Suspects
- Chapter 9. Troping Mr. Johnson
- Chapter 10. Forensic Music
- Appendix A. Primary Character List
- Appendix B. Episode Guide
- Appendix C. Dataset of Press Sources on CSI and the CSI Effect, 2002-2005
- Bibliography
- Index
- Editors and Contributors
