Televisual waiting
Images of time and waiting inCSI
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4356414 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anita Lam (0000-0002-1561-270X, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 275-294 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x15604517 |
| OpenAlex | W2407346262 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
As a massively popular crime drama, Crime Scene Investigation has circulated influential images and narratives that suggest that the processing and analysis of forensic evidence can be done in a swift and timely manner. The claim of such a CSI effect is based on the relative absence of waiting scenes within the series. This article examines the series' multiple representations of time and waiting, linking the absence of waiting to the construction of forensic scientists as powerful figures of moral authority. In the episode Grave Danger, however, waiting is notably imagined as something that must be experienced and endured as a result of conviction. It is made analogous to death, and embodied through horizontality as well as by feminized waiters. Because the feminization of waiters also characterizes the representation of television viewers, I end by examining how the role of waiting in Crime Scene Investigation is intertwined with the viewer's experience of watching the planned flow of network television. Ultimately, this article argues that the study of televisual waiting requires a recognition that images and narratives on network television emerge out of and depend on waiting as representation, experience, and performance
Aesthetics · Art · Conviction · Criminology · Drama · Embodied cognition · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Representation (politics · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
The Uses of Enchantment
Making Crime Television
Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge
Television
Investigating CSI
Ambient Television
Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
Examining the ‘CSI effect’ through an ANT lens
Murder, Mass Culture, and the Feminine
Autoptic vision and the necrophilic imaginary in CSI
Mass Culture and the Feminine
CSI and moral authority
Animating Suspension
Mass Market Romance
On Waiting
Her Body, Himself
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |