The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Doll-house Homicides, Foster Families, and the Subversion of Domesticity in CSI: Las Vegas
The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, Doll-house Homicides, Foster Families, and the Subversion of Domesticity in CSI: Las Vegas
Author(s): Zofia KolbuszewskaSubject(s): Anthropology, Gender Studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; doll-house; miniature; simulacrum; crime investigation; forensic TV shows; gender identification
Summary/Abstract: The article explores similarities and divergencies in how The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, doll-house style dioramas built by Frances Glessner Lee in the 1930s and 1940s in order to train homicide detectives, and miniature crime scenes crafted by a protagonist of the season 7 of the TV show CSI: Las Vegas modelled on them, figure female frustration connected with the traditional shape of family and domesticity. The dioramas reveal and simultaneously contain the foundational Derridean darkness underlying the concept of domesticity.
Journal: Kultura Popularna
- Issue Year: 54/2017
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 50-59
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
