Reading CSI: Crime TV Under the Microscope (Reading Contemporary Television)

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Regular Cast List......Page 14
PART 1: This Much We Know: Introductions and Contexts......Page 16
Introduction: This Much I know... - Michael Allen......Page 18
1. The Hook and the Look: CSI and the Aesthetics of the Television Crime Series - Sue Turnbull......Page 30
2. No Need to Pathologise: Reprinted from The Observer, Sunday 13 August 2006 - Andrew Anthony......Page 48
PART 2: Interrogation: Narrative and Narration......Page 52
3. Anatomising Gilbert Grissom: The Structure and Function of the Televisual Character - Roberta Pearson......Page 54
4. So Many Different Ways to Tell It: Multi-Platform Storytelling in CSI - Michael Allen......Page 72
5. CSI at the BFI - Kim Akass......Page 88
PART 3: Trace: Aesthetics, Style and Form......Page 92
6. Body Matters: Realism, Spectacle and the Corpse in CSI - Deborah Jermyn......Page 94
7. Evidence of Things Unseen: The Pornographic Aesthetic and the Search for Truth in CSI - Elke Weissmann and Karen Boyle......Page 105
8. Who Are They? Style Codes of the CSI Investigators - Anna Konig......Page 118
9. CSI and Sound - Karen Lury......Page 122
10. The Quintessence of Con: The Las Vegas of CSI - Lucis Rahilly......Page 137
PART 4: Forensics: Theoretical Positions......Page 142
11. Reading the Traces - Charlie Gere......Page 144
12. Horatio Caine\'s Sunglasses and the Criminalist Viewer: \'Looking\' and \'being looked at\' in CSI: Miami - Patrick West......Page 155
13. \'The Bullets Confirm the Story Told by the Potato\': Materials without Motives in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Silke P......Page 168
14. Mac\'s Melancholia: Scripting Trauma, 9/11 and Bodily Absence in CSI: NY - Janet McCabe......Page 182
PART 5: DNA: Industry and Reception......Page 196
15. Five\'s Finest: the Import of CSI to British Television - Simone Knox......Page 198
16. RTE and the CSI Franchise - Dermot Horan......Page 213
17. Dissecting CSI: The View from the Trainee and the Professional: Daryl Vinall and Shelly Robinson......Page 216
18. Investigating \'CSI Television Fandom\': Fans\' Textual Paths through the Franchise - Matt Hills and Amy Luther......Page 223
19. The CSI Phenomenon - David Bianculli......Page 237
Notes......Page 242
Episode Guide......Page 248
Film and TV Guide......Page 266
Bibliography......Page 271
Index......Page 282