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The spectacle of crime, digitized: CSI - Crime Scene Investigation and Social Anatomy
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Abstract One of the most significant features of the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigationis its central preoccupation – forensic evidence – and the profession practised by its major characters – forensic science. Scientific inscriptions consistently allow the crime scene investigators (CSIs) to d... mehr
One of the most significant features of the television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigationis its central preoccupation – forensic evidence – and the profession practised by its major characters – forensic science. Scientific inscriptions consistently allow the crime scene investigators (CSIs) to determine 'evidence' and 'truths' that otherwise elude them. At the same time, the dazzling digital effects used to punctuate key moments in each episode inevitably reference scientific technologies and the knowledge about reality that these promise. The success of the CSIs in every episode is premised upon knowledge guaranteed by scientific inscriptions and is itself an inscription of ways of seeing human bodies and the social body, represented by police scientists working to ensure public safety – a healthy social body. And it is also about how bodies, individual and social, are constituted as information, made knowable and validated by scientific instruments and procedures used to produce evidence.... weniger
Klassifikation
Rundfunk, Telekommunikation
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
autopsy; crime drama; digital imaging; evidence; forensic science; spectacle; televisuality; visual culture
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2005
Seitenangabe
S. 445-463
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 8 (2005) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1367549405051847
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)