Investigating CSI
Inside the Crime Labs of Las Vegas, Miami and New York
Published on 10. September 2006
233 pages
978-1-935251-57-6 (ISBN)
Description
This selection of smart, accessible essays covers CSI's cutting-edge science, intriguing mysteries, and engaging personal dynamics. Essays from experts in the field illuminate such processes as DNA testing, ballistics, crime-scene photography, and autopsy procedure. With pieces that focus on the leads' varying appeals, the history of forensics on television, the show's treatment of alternate sexualities, and whether the incredible attention to detail actually gives criminals an advantage, this anthology provides an in-depth investigation that enriches the viewing experience.
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Benbella Books
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Persons
Donn Cortez
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- CSI: Carefully Scripted Introduction
- The Reality of CSI: Miami
- The CSI Effect
- Creating Criminal Masterminds
- CSI-Generation Juries The Effect of TV on Juries Predisposed to Scientific Evidence
- Many Faces
- The Majesty of Maggots
- A Quest for Identity: The Fingerprint
- The Forensics of Fiction
- You Care Who Killed Roger Ackroyd Why CSI Is So Popular
- Alimentary, My Dear Catherine
- CSI: Camera Slams Inside . . .
- IQ, EQ, and SQ Grissom Thinks and Caine Feels, but Taylor Enlightens
- All That Glitters Coloring Place and Identity in CSI
- Vegas Rules, Miami Often Stinks, and New York Is (Apparently) Sometimes Mostly Okay
- CSI Episode Summaries
