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This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has captured the collective imagination: crime films and television programs. In contemporary screen culture, crime is increasingly framed as an area of scientific inquiry and, even more frequently, as an area of concern for female experts. One of the central concerns of this book is the gendered nature of e

This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has captured the collective imagination: crime films and television programs. In contemporary screen culture, crime is increasingly framed as an area of scientific inquiry and, even more frequently, as an area of concern for female experts.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Trash Talk: Gender as an Analytic on Reality Television -- PART I. The Pleasures and Perils in Being Seen -- 1 The "Pig," the "Older Woman," and the "Catfight": Gender, Celebrity, and Controversy in a Decade of British Reality TV -- 2 Reality TV and the Gendered Politics of Flaunting -- 3 Keeping Up with the Aspirations: Commercial Family Values and the Kardashian Brand -- 4 When America's Queen of Talk Saved Britain's Duchess of Pork: Finding Sarah, Oprah Winfrey, and Transatlantic Self-Making -- 5 Wrecked: Programming Celesbian Reality -- PART II. Citizenship, Ethnicity, and (Trans)National Ident -- 6 Abject Femininity and Compulsory Masculinity on Jersey Shore -- 7 Supersizing the Family: Nation, Gender, and Recession on Reality TV -- 8 "Get More Action" on Gladiatorial Television: Simulation and Masculinity on Deadliest Warrior -- 9 Jade Goody's Preemptive Hagiography: Neoliberal Citizenship and Reality TV Celebrity -- PART III. Mediated Freak Shows and Cautionary Tales -- 10 "It's Not TV, It's Birth Control": Reality TV and the "Problem" of Teenage Pregnancy -- 11 Intimating Disaster: Choices, Women, and Hoarding Shows -- 12 Freaky Five-Year- Olds and Mental Mommies: Narratives of Gender, Race, and Class in TLC's Toddlers & Tiaras -- 13 Legitimate Targets: Reality Television and Large People -- 14 Spectral Men: Femininity, Race, and Traumatic Manhood in the RTV Ghost-Hunter Genre -- Bibliography -- Videography -- Contributors -- Index