Jules Odendahl-James
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Reflexivity and the procedural
Amelie-- This is one of my favorite Columbo episodes! To watch the competitive scenery-chewing of Falk and Shatner is such a treat! What do you think about Robert Goren of Law & Order: Criminal Intent as a descendant of Columbo? I am very taken by you ... -
Body as "gadget"?
Looking back at both Steven and Grant's recent posts, I'm reminded of the wonderful CSI episode, "Toe Tags" (Season 7) where the autopsied bodies in the morgue 'wake up' and talk with each other about how they got there. Each ... -
The Pulse & Punctuation of Crime & Solution
Grant-- What a great post to remind us how much Dassin's film really sets the pulse for big and little screen crime narratives. I was struck by how many crime TV series dedicate at least one episode to exploring the crossing "wires" of crim ... -
the Catch-22 of "the personal"
Derek, I agree with Amelie that your post brings some much needed attention to the personal/professional divide in these shows. I think about Columbo's constant invocation of "Mrs. Columbo" who is only heard from and never seen... if I' ... -
Grissom and women
Steven, I really enjoyed your piece. I've been thinking about Grissom and women as I work on a piece about the Miniature Killer story arc, female criminality, and "amateur" criminologist Frances Glessner Lee. In that research, I've bee ... -
Amelie, My strategy for this
Amelie, My strategy for this post was to boil my observations down to a set of narrative elements, common to almost every episode of Bones, that, for me, exemplified the characteristics of the forensic procedural as a related but unique kind of police pro ... -
Voices of the Dead
Amelie, From all accounts that I've read, Reichs is happy with the way the series has been constructed, esp. the character of Brennan. She's actively involved in the production and draws *some* of the cases from her own history. I stopped readin ... -
Productive resistance?
Steven, I appreciate your struggle to respond.: ) Even though Bones has grown on me, I must confess that I've been a resisting viewer partly because I really dislike the construction of Brennan's character and the show's turn towards more c ... -
Dexter as the new "everyman"
So happy to read your mention of Copycat (a very messy but intriguing little film that has a lot to offer in terms of a gendered reading of serial killer films). I was particularly wondering what you thought about Dexter's appeal as an Sociopath Ever ... -
Along these same lines
I've been working with this notion of "the forensic imagination" in relationship to the dramatization of science on CSI and the like as well its early appearance in the news documentary narratives of early forensic reality shows that used t ...