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  “It’s Our Job to Know Stuff”: The Epistemology of CSI

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

  July 30, 2007

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  CSI computer simulation Curator's Note This compilation of brief clips begins with a paradigmatic ...
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  Professional Lives

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  Derek Kompare Southern Methodist University

  March 12, 2010

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  Professional Lives procedural drama police labor ideology feminism CSI crime Curator's Note   Middle-class adulthood is the central procedure represented in procedural drama. TV cops, lawyers, and doctors aren't only shown doing their jobs; they ...
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  CSI’s State of Denial

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  Chad Harriss Alfred University

  August 02, 2007

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  CSI’s State of Denial science Repressive State Apparatus power Louis Althusser Ideological State Apparatuses discourse CSI citizenship CBS Curator's Note In this scene from CSI's "A Bullet Runs Through It," Grissom makes his oft-repeat ...
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  “Looking for things, analyzing them, trying to figure out the world”: Professional expertise and authority in the TV police procedural

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  Steven Cohan Syracuse University

  March 08, 2010

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  “Looking for things, analyzing them, trying to figure out the world”: Professional expertise and authority in the TV police procedural procedurals intellectuals expertise CSI Curator's Note The final chapter of my book, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ...