Reading CSI : crime TV under the microscope

Allen, Michael, 1957- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781845114282 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1845114280 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: London ; New York : I. B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-266) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. I. This much we know : introductions and contexts -- Introduction : this much I know ... / Michael Allen -- 1. hook and the look : CSI and the aesthetics of the television crime series / Sue Turnbull -- 2. No need to pathologise ... / Andrew Anthony -- Pt. II. 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 -- Pt. III. 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. quintessence of Con : the Las Vegas of CSI / Lucia Rahilly --