Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science: 45 (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) - Hardcover

Steenberg, Lindsay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415891884 ISBN 13: 9780415891882

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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 culture, crime is increasingly framed as an area of scientific inquiry and, even more frequently, as an area of concern for female experts. One of the central concerns of this book is the gendered nature of expert scientific knowledge, as embodied by the ubiquitous character of the female investigator. Steenberg argues that our fascination with the forensic depends on our equal fascination with (and suspicion of) women's bodies―with the bodies of the women investigating and with the bodies of the mostly female victims under investigation.

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About the Author

Lindsay Steenberg is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415891884
• ISBN 13: 9780415891882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236