Sensation/investigation: Crime television and the action aesthetic

Tasker, Yvonne (2016) Sensation/investigation: Crime television and the action aesthetic. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 14 (3). pp. 304-323. ISSN 1740-0309

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Abstract

This article explores the interface between crime television and action television, arguing that action/crime is a significant mode which has typically been overlooked in studies of the genre. It engages with the history of action/crime and its most prominent formal features discussing in more detail NCIS (2003--) and The Blacklist (2013--) and foregrounding the sensational elements of violence and physical movement through space as well as the flows of data and dynamic rendering of analysis typical of forensic crime television. Action/crime is framed as one of several modes which can be seen to organise and inflect crime content; in this way the piece suggests that textual approaches are most productive when premised on an understanding of the fluid, modal aspects of television genre.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	genre,crime television,action television,sensation,ncis,sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	16 Jun 2016 08:41
Last Modified:	21 Mar 2024 01:17
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/59371
DOI:	10.1080/17400309.2016.1187027

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