Dr Reshmi Dutta-Flanders, Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English Language & Linguistics, will be presenting at the workshop, ‘The End of an Era? 15 Years of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Forensic TV’ at Oxford Brookes University this week, on Friday and Saturday, 16-17 October 2015.
This year the US drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation finished, having re-defined the TV landscape, popularising forensic science as investigative methodology and, as a result, helped to influence the criminal narrative analysis.
Reshmi’s talk on offender discourse under one of the themes ‘Forensic and Crime Aesthetics’, looking at the perpetrator’s narrative. This narrative is a complex state of affairs, and the agentive anti-hero is portrayed as a participant with no goal, a victim of circumstance. The factors that led to the way things turned out to influence the offending disposition then became the suspense in the story of crime, over the revelation of the perpetrator in a typical murder mystery story. Reshmi’s linguistics and stylistics analysis examines how an emotional and intellectual process is built within the narrative.
For more details of the workshop, please see the page here: www.brookes.ac.uk/About-Brookes/Events/The-End-of-an-Era–15-Years-of-CSI–Crime-Scene-Investigation-and-Forensic-TV/