The Forensic Gothic
Knowledge, the Supernatural, and the Psychic Detective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895863 |
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| Authors | Ann McGuire (corresponding author), David Buchbinder (0000-0002-9470-3473) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 289-307 |
| Publication date | 2010-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras.40.3.289 |
| OpenAlex | W2020947465 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article analyses two television series first screened in 2005: Medium and Supernatural. It argues that, in the context of post-9/11 anxieties about the surveillance and defence of the borders of nation/family, the narrative use of paranormal phenomena offers a new forensic model. While traditional detective narratives rely on empiricist, Enlightenment ways of identifying and defending against the invisible, threatening other—making it visible and hence allaying the fears that it excites—these programs, drawing on the narrative strategies of both the detective story and the Gothic tale, offer a way of knowing the unknown and seeing the unseeable
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Detective fiction · Empiricism · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Paranormal · Psychic · Sociology · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Medicine · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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