[ecrea] "The CSI Effect"- new from Lexington Books

> Apologies for cross posting and shameless 
> promotion as a contributor, but thought some 
> might be interested in this new book.
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> The CSI Effect: Television, Crime, and Governance
> Edited by Michele Byers and Val Marie Johnson
>
> Lexington Books
>
> "What the 'CSI shot'­the CBS drama's signature 
> microphotographic probe beneath the skin and 
> into the body­did for television forensics, 
> Michele Byers' and Val Marie Johnson's excellent 
> collection does for television studies. This 
> multi-voiced subcutaneous investigation into the 
> world's most popular small screen franchise 
> discovers significant and new political, 
> sociological, and aesthetic evidence concerning 
> why Anthony Zuicker's creation remains at the 
> end of the first decade of the 21st Century 
> anything but a corpse."­David Lavery, editor of 
> The Essential Cult Television Reader and 
> founding editor of the journal Critical Studies in Television
>
> 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.
>
> List of Contributors
> Gail Anderson, Kevin Bonnycastle, Michele Byers, 
> Linda Derksen, Nichola Dobson, Basil Glynn, Liz 
> Harvey, Kurt Hohenstein, Val Marie Johnson, 
> Jeongmee Kim, Lawrence Kramer, Mythili Rajiva, 
> William Turkel, Sherah VanLaerhoven, and Patrick West.
>
> About the Editors
> Michele Byers is associate professor of 
> sociology and criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
>
> Val Marie Johnson is associate professor of 
> sociology and criminology at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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