Historicizing CSI and its effect(s): The real and the representational in American scientific detective fiction and print news media, 1902-1935

Crime, Media, Culture

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 133-148

  Littlefield, Melissa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

CSI effect; forensic science; literature and science; scientific detective fiction

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052497089     PISSN: 17416590     EISSN: 17416604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741659011406700     Document Type: Article

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