The CSI Effect Television, Crime, and Governance
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, August 16, 2009.
Book Condition: New
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739124710
The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance demonstrates that CSI's appeal cannot be disentangled from its production as a televisual text or the broader discourses and practices that circulate within our social landscape. This groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection bridges the gap between the study of popular culture media and the study of crime, and fosters the development of a new set of theoretical languages in which the mediated spectacle of crime and criminalization can be carefully considered.
Review
“What the 'CSI shot'-the CBS drama's signature microphotographic probe beneath the skin and into the body-did for television forensics, Michele Byers' and Val Marie Johnson's excellent collection does for television studies. This multi-voiced subcutaneous investigation into the world's most popular small screen franchise discovers significant and new political, sociological, and aesthetic evidence concerning why Anthony Zucker's creation remains at the end of the first decade of the 21st Century anything but a corpse.” ―David Lavery, editor of The Essential Cult Television Reader and founding editor of the journal Critical Studies in Television
“The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance will make a significant contribution to our understanding of CSI as well as the contemporary social conditions that make its effects possible.” ―Jack Z. Bratich, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
About the Author
Dr Basil Glynn is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Middlesex University, London, UK.
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