Fictional Death and Scientific Truth: The Truth-value of Science in Contemporary Forensic Crime Fiction
(2012) In Clues: A Journal of Detection 30(1). p.88-98- Abstract
- The author explores the relationship between science and truth in forensic crime fiction by analysis of narrative and media specific constituents of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Cornwell’s The Scarpetta Factor. Both are found to convey strong bonds between science and truth, and readers/viewers are likely to assume that this is the case also in the external world.
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- author
- Bergman, Kerstin LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- science, scientist, scientist detective, fictional science, truth, fictional truth, crime fiction, forensic crime fiction, forensic genre, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Patricia Cornwell
- in
- Clues: A Journal of Detection
- volume
- 30
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 88 - 98
- ISSN
- 1940-3046
- project
- Science in the Crime Genre
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 5abbffbd-3864-4a93-9d43-b36469e0c58d (old id 3558948)
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- 2016-04-04 08:55:54
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