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• In Media Res
  Re: Dragnet and the Big Idea

  Something more than faith

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  Thursday, June 4, 2020 — 12:22 pm

  Thanks for this, David. Your point about this being a relious calling seems particularly apt in this episode in which Sgt. Friday gathers evicence from the nuns. What I find particulary interesting is the way the episode (an the series) distances itself f ...
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  Re: Immigration in SVU

  Opening up spaces

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  Friday, June 5, 2020 — 12:57 am

  Thanks for this essay, Jocelyn. I like your acknowledgement that these series often use the basic strcuture of the crime to confront other issues along the way. The Law & Order franchise was/is especially adept at this. It's one of the things tha ...
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  Re: Resisting the CSI Effect: UK TV and the Crime Series

  Back to basics

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  Friday, June 5, 2020 — 9:46 pm

  Thanks for this, Brian. I find the interplay between elements of crime series fascinating. There are elements of Holmesian intellect in shows like CSI (Gil's stragely deep understanding of bugs, for instance), and then certain forensic elements of ev ...
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  Re: Sexual Violence in Crime Dramas of the 1950s

  Thanks so much for this

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  Monday, June 1, 2020 — 9:03 pm

  Thanks so much for this excellent piece, Samantha. As a question of history, this feels like a very useful intervention into a narrative that particular historical social and cultural shifts led to what we now think of as depcitions of sexual violence. Yo ...