The CSI Effect

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.

CSI has been heralded in many spheres of public discourse as a televisual revolution, its effects on the public unprecedented. The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance demonstrates that CSI's appeal cannot be disentangled from either its production as a televisual text or the broader discourses and practices that circulate within our social landscape. This interdisciplinary collection bridges the gap between the study of media, particularly popular culture media, and the study of crime. The contributors consider the points of intersection between these very different realms of scholarship and in so doing foster the development of a new set of theoretical languages in which the mediated spectacle of crime and criminalization can be carefully considered. This timely and groundbreaking volume is bound to intrigue both scholars and CSI enthusiasts alike.

Chapter 1 CSI as Neoliberalism: An Introduction
Chapter 2 TheCSI Effect: Producing Justice, Science, and Television Drama
Chapter 3
Chapter 1: TheCSI Effect: Science Fiction?
Chapter 4
Chapter 2: The Science and Careers ofCSI
Chapter 5
Chapter 3: CSI andLaw and Order: Dueling Representations of Science and the Law in the Criminal Justice System
Chapter 6
Chapter 4: Generic Difference and Hybridisation in CSI
Chapter 7 Bodies of Evidence
Chapter 8
Chapter 5: The Body as Abject and Object in CSI
Chapter 9
Chapter 6: The City of Our Times: Space, Identity and the Body in CSI: Miami
Chapter 10
Chapter 7: Crime Scene Investigation as Applied Environmental History
Chapter 11 Late Modern Subjects
Chapter 12
Chapter 8: Not the Usual Suspects: The Obfuscation of Political Economy and Race in CSI
Chapter 13
Chapter 9: Troping Mr. Johnson: Reading Phallic Mastery and Anxiety on Season One of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Chapter 14
Chapter 10: Forensic Music: Channeling the Dead on Post-9/11 TV