1st Edition
Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture Gender, Crime, and Science
By Lindsay Steenberg
Copyright 2013
236 Pages
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Routledge
250 Pages
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Routledge
236 Pages
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Routledge
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This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has captured the collective imagination: crime films and television programs. In contemporary screen... Read more
Part 1: The Forensic Sub-Genre 1. Retrofit Forensics: Excavating the Mythic Origins of Forensic Science 2. The Forensic Women’s Gothic: Postfeminism and Expertise 3. Forensic Archaeologies on Crime Television: Science and Gender as Seen on TV Part 2: Forensics Beyond the Crime Genre 4. The CSI Effect 5. Forensic Science at the Museum 6. Forensic Science and Lifestyle
Biography
Lindsay Steenberg is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
