Murder, Justice, Media (Forschung)

1. Raymond Ruble:  Round Up the Usual Suspects: Criminal Investigation in Law & Order, Cold Case, and CSI. Westport, Conn.: Praeger 2009. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “Each series has its own special crime-fighting niche, and each approaches its job with a different set of values and different paradigms of discovery and proof. Their separate approaches are each firmly grounded in different components of human nature — analytical reasoning, for instance, in CSI, memory in Cold Case, and teamwork in Law & Order. After examining each of the individual series in depth, Ruble goes on to investigate some of the historical antecedents in classical TV detective series such as The FBI and Dragnet. It is interesting to note that these crime fighting methodologies are extensions of the way we all process information about the world. Ray Ruble here aims to increase our appreciation for the ingenious manner in which fictional cases are broken and convictions convincingly secured, and also illuminates the deeper human elements that lie under a more implicit spotlight in these runaway hits”. (Bei Amazon kann man reinblättern: das erste Kapitel beginnt mit O. J. Simpson und Descartes’ Meditationen.)

2. Jody Enders: Murder by Accident: Medieval Theater, Modern Media, Critical Intentions. Chicago ; London: The U of Chicago P, 2009. Aus der Verlagsanzeige: “Drawing on four fascinating medieval events in which a theatrical performance precipitated deadly consequences, Enders contends that the marginalization of intention in critical discourse is a mirror for the marginalization—and misunderstanding—of theater. Murder by Accident revisits the legal, moral, ethical, and aesthetic limits of the living arts of the past, pairing them with examples from the present, whether they be reality television, snuff films, the “accidental” live broadcast of a suicide on a Los Angeles freeway, or an actor who jokingly fired a stage revolver at his temple, causing his eventual death. This book will force scholars and students to rethink their assumptions about theory, intention, and performance, both past and present”. (Keine Vorschau.) Einschlägig sind schon frühere Publikationen von Frau Enders, z. B. The Medieval Theater of Cruelty: Rhetoric, Memory, Violence. Ithaca: Cornell UP 1999, und Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 200 (s. Pressemitteilung der Uni: UCSB Professor Debunks Urban Legends of Medieval Theater). S. auch “The Devil in the Flesh of Theatre”. In: Kasten, Ingrid, Erika Fischer-Lichte, and Elke Koch, Hg.: Transformationen des Religiösen: Performativität und Textualität im geistlichen Spiel. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2007 — kann man bei Google einsehen.

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