Reading CSI: Crime TV Under the Microscope »

Michael Allen is Lecturer in Film and Electronic Media, Birkbeck College, University of London. His books include Family Secrets, a study of D.W. Griffith's feature films, and Contemporary U.S. Cinema.

Taking a scalpel to the CSI juggernaut

Contents

• Acknowledgements

• Contributors

• Regular cast list

• This Much We Know. introductions and contexts

• This Much I Know …: Introduction, Michael Allen

• 1. The Hook and the Look: CSI and the aesthetics of the television crime series , Sue Turnbull

• 2. No Need to Pathologise…,Andrew Anthony

• Part 1: INTERROGATION. narrative and narration

• 3. Anatomising Gilbert Grissom: the structure and function of the televisual character, Roberta Pearson

• 4. So Many Different Ways to Look At It: CSI as multi-platform story-world, Michael Allen

• 5. CSI at the bfi …, Kim Akass

• Part 2: 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 König

• 9. CSI and Sound, Karen Lury

• 10. The Quintessence of Con: the Las Vegas of CSI, Lucia Rahilly

• Part 3: FORENSICS. theoretical positions

• 11. Reading the Traces, Charlie Gere

• 12. Horatio Caine's Sunglasses and the Criminalist Viewer: 'looking' and 'being looked at' in CSI: Miami, Patrick West

• 13. The Bullet Confirms the Story told by the Potato': materials without motives in C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Silke Panse

• 14. Mac's Melancholia: scripting trauma, 9/11 and bodily absence in CSI:NY, Janet McCabe

• Part 4: DNA. industry and reception

• 15. Five's Finest: the import of CSI to British terrestrial television, Simone Knox

• 16. RTE and the CSI Franchise, Dermot Horan

• 17. Dissecting CSI: the View from the Trainee and the Professional CSI on the (Real-life) Pathology Table, Shelley Robinson

• CSI For the New Forensics Guy, Daryl Vinall

• 18. Investigating 'CSI Television Fandom' and Fans' Textual Paths through the Franchise, Matt Hills and Amy Luther

• 19. The CSI Phenomenon

• David Bianculli

• Episode Guide

• Film and TV Guide

• Bibliography

• Index