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Topic: Crime drama


  
  CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (commonly referred to as CSI) is a popular CBS television series that trails the investigations of a team of forensic scientists as they unravel the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Crime labs in some countries have also reported an increase in the number of submissions being made to them by police investigating crimes.
While crime statistics do prove that victims are often killed by those who are closest to them, and “crimes of passion” are frequently depicted on television shows, it simply underlines negative stereotypes when gay characters kill their lovers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/CSI:_Crime_Scene_Investigation   (3716 words)

  
 Crime Drama Teaching Unit
Crime shows are constructed realities, responding to the demands of the market, the needs of advertisers, and the requirements of the drama itself.
Crime shows embody values and ideologies such as the acceptance of authority; violence as a means of solving problems; the cause of crime as an individual responsibility; and the nature of crime as violent acts by young people.
Crime shows can be enjoyed and appreciated through knowledge of their patterns and an aesthetic appreciation of the visuals and sound.
www.media-awareness.ca /english/resources/educational/lessons/secondary/crime/crime_dramas_intro.cfm?RenderForPrint=1   (452 words)

  
 Warning: NYPD Blue may affect your opinion of the President
In three related studies, researchers found that viewers of crime dramas were more likely than others to view crime as one of the top issues — and often the top issue — facing our country.
Their crime drama results will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Political Communication.
Results showed that viewers of the crime dramas were more likely to use evaluations of the president's handling of crime in rating his overall performance.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-10/osu-wnb100404.php   (1167 words)

  
 CSI: Crime Drama as Semitically Correct Investigation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While most dramas based on real events change certain elements "to protect the innocent," CSI's semitical correctness functions to do the exact opposite: it not only protects the guilty, it projects their blame onto the innocent.
crimes -- have been guilty of gratuitous race reversal, in which real-life Black hyperviolence is depicted as pathological behavior found in Whites and White communities.
These recent acts of tribal savagery find precedent in the 2001 Black-on-White "love crime" of White 20-year-old Kris Kime, who was beaten to death in Seattle by a mob of Blacks for daring to rescue a White woman from this same mob.
www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com /temp/articles_illustrated/csi/csi.html   (1434 words)

  
 Widows
Widows, a drama series with six 52-minute episodes written by Lynda La Plante was first broadcast on British television in the spring of 1983.
This simple variation on a traditional crime story formula--the gang of robbers planning and carrying out a raid under the surveillance of the police-- offered a series of pleasures for both male and female viewers in what is traditionally a men's genre.
Firstly, the representation of female criminality in the crime series is strongly focused around the figures of the prostitute and the shop-lifter, not the ambitious and successful bank robbers we find here.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/W/htmlW/widows/widows.htm   (623 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: Face [IMPORT]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Face is a shrewd and realistic crime drama that is embedded in the genre and politics of Britain.
It recognizes the British crime film tradition as a forum for dissecting the country's social state and political agenda, and as a soapbox to speak to its male population.
Face views crime as a rebellion against the establishment and as its mirror image -- acknowledging both the growing crime rates and the discontent among young men in England at the time it was filmed.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000AYEIKE   (424 words)

  
 HBO's The Wire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While HBO’s original series “The Sopranos” and “Oz” have also dealt with crime as a topic, their main characters have primarily been the criminals.
While the criminals are definitely major characters on “The Wire”, it is HBO’s first conventional police drama that revolves around criminal investigation and probably the first television drama to focus on surveillance and wiretap investigations specifically.
For fans of “Homicide,” several actors who appeared on the 1990s police drama, such as Callie Thorne and Peter Gerety.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/crime_films_tv/93425   (460 words)

  
 ESRI News - Winter 2000/2001 ArcNews -- Mapping CBS's New Crime Drama--"The District"
For this, crime mapping GIS was chosen by the producers.
COMSTAT is a process that forces accountability and responsibility by requiring police commanders to be intimately aware of crime and crime patterns in their areas.
Above left: For episode three, ArcView GIS was used to map the locations and number of crimes during the day and night and then to map the deployment of patrol officers during the day and night.
www.esri.com /news/arcnews/winter0001articles/mappingcbs.html   (825 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional:Europe:United Kingdom:Arts and Entertainment:Television:Programmes:Dramas
A UK TV drama is defined as a drama that was produced primarily in the UK.
"Silent Witness" is a BBC crime investigation drama starring Amanda Burton as Professor Sam Ryan, a highly-intelligent and sometimes intimidating coroner and professor at University College London.
"A Touch of Frost" is an ITV crime drama series starring David Jason as Detective Inspector William "Jack" Frost, and Bruce Alexander as Superintendent Norman Mullett.
dmoz.org /Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Arts_and_Entertainment/Television/Programmes/Dramas/desc.html   (3150 words)

  
 Scripting a Crime Drama | Lesson
“Scripting a Crime Drama” is intended to follow lesson two of the Crime Drama unit: “Viewing a Crime Drama.” In this lesson, students will tackle the scripting of a television crime drama by looking at the plot formulas and structures that underpin this genre.
To find the script to another crime drama try Drew's Script-O-Rama, on the right sidebar or check the library or drama department of your school.
Each group is to write a script for a scene from the crime drama that they analyzed in Lesson Two.
www.media-awareness.ca /english/resources/educational/lessons/secondary/crime/scripting_crime_drama.cfm   (697 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - Crime drama by 'Numb3rs'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Despite a way-above-average cast, the new CBS drama series "Numb3rs" - about a detective aided by his mathematical whiz of a brother - doesn't quite add up.
Like another inspired-by-true-life show, NBC's "Medium" (which outsources much of its crime solving to a housewife who hears dead people), "Numb3rs" is about someone who cracks cases by seeing things others don't.
From that point on, the drama shifts from persuading disbelievers to simply solving problems - which may be one problem the geniuses behind "Numb3rs" won't be able to solve, despite its stellar acting ensemble.
www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/v-pfriendly/story/272906p-233688c.html   (392 words)

  
 CULT FILM SITE: Crime and Mystery Films (A-J)
The inventor of a death ray is murdered and Drummond is framed for the crime.
Classic, hard boiled crime drama (some call it 'stomach-wrenching') featuring Cornell Wilde as a cop with a yen for Jean Wallace, who just happens to be mobster Richard Conte's girlfriend.
Crime drama about rival mobsters directed by and starring Walter Matthau (his only such assignment).
sepnet.com /rcramer/crime.htm   (5961 words)

  
 Crime & Punishment TV Show - Crime & Punishment Television Show - TV.com
"Crime & Punishment" (previously "Trial & Error") has been described as a cross between a drama and a documentary or "drama-mentary." The series will follow the professional and personal lives of five first-year assistant district attorneys in a medium-size city.
Law & Order, the longest running crime series and the second longest-running drama series in the history of television,starts in its 16th season on NBC.
JAG (military-speak for Judge Advocate General) is an adventure drama about this elite legal wing of officers trained as lawyers who investigate, prosecute and defend those accused of crimes in the...
www.tv.com /crime-and-punishment/show/2249/summary.html   (372 words)

  
 CULT FILM SITE: Drama
drama features fine location photography and some of the most beautiful women in Europe.
A demented farmer (Robinson) is haunted by his past crimes in this terrific mixture of gothic horror and film noir, which boasts fine acting and a unique, moody quality.
Anthony Perkins stars as a man accused of a crime that is never explained to him.
sepnet.com /rcramer/drama.htm   (2114 words)

  
 TVideo (Crime)
When a chorus girl is murdered, her boyfriend (a married man) is accused of the crime while his wife stands by him.
This terrific crime drama was produced by John Houseman and was Nicholas Ray's directoral debut.
Crime pic with a script by Ed Wood that manages to squeeze in murder, vandalism, rape and robbery.
www.tvideo.com /crime.htm   (11443 words)

  
 British crime drama to star Coltrane as pathologist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
This fall, ABC will present a new weekly drama series called ''Cracker,'' with Robert Pastorelli (formerly the happy house painter on ''Murphy Brown'') as a forensic psychologist who interprets murder scenes in order to understand and help apprehend killers.
If that sounds familiar, it may be because that was the basic idea of last season's ''Profiler'' on NBC and ''Millennium'' on Fox.
Like ''Columbo,'' ''Cracker'' shows us the crimes as they're committed, then details the way in which the hunter catches his quarry.
www.lubbockonline.com /news/061097/british.htm   (412 words)

  
 Reel.com: Drama - The Godfather, Part II
We pity the fool who does not care for that time-honored Hollywood tradition, the crime drama.
As a man with no home or valid papers, he takes up residence in the terminal itself, where he befriends the airport staff and falls in love with a flight attendant.
Bleak indie-drama about a thirteen-year-old girl's strained relationship with her mother, which is further put to the test when she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.
www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=categories/drama   (336 words)

  
 CSI Files - Ferlito To Appear in Indie Crime Drama
Crime shows and mystery movies to get their own television network.
When a man is murdered in the elevator of his penthouse suite, the CSIs have to find both the unusual murder weapon and the girl who witnessed the shooting.
that Ferlito had signed to appear in the independent drama, which tells the story of the unconventional relationship between a pair of contract killers, a woman (Mirren) and her stepson (Gooding), who are romantically involved with one another.
www.csifiles.com /news/210604_02.shtml   (691 words)

  
 Zap2it - TV news - Crime Drama Gives FOX Biloxi Blues
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) FOX is developing a Southern-fried crime drama set in the Gulf Coast gambling hub of Biloxi, Mississippi.
Feature scribes Joe Gayton and Tony Gayton pitch the drama, which is set up at 20th Century Fox TV, to the network as part of a blind script deal with FOX.
The series will look at a matriarch who heads up an organized crime operation that works in and around the resorts and casinos and clubs and bars in Biloxi.
tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|92424|1|10,00.html   (192 words)

  
 Dark Crime Drama Explores Innocence (The Daily Southtown): The Zero 5.0laf - The Official Website of Andrew Vachss
Take his most recent release, "The Getaway Man." The $11 Vintage Crime/Black Lizard paperback original features an eye-catching, full-color portrait of a bodacious young woman in front of the bisected image of a determined young man gripping a red steering wheel.
Although the new novel is a contemporary crime story, it is being marketed as a modern take on classic noir and a reinvention of the classic pulp style that reflects the lurid flavor of titles first published in the post-war '40s and '50s.
An intense and sometimes intimidating native New Yorker whose last name rhymes with "ax," Vachss has successfully employed the genre of very hardboiled crime fiction to get across his very serious and very real agenda of social reform in the areas of child abuse, sexual predators and youthful offenders.
www.vachss.com /av_interviews/southtown2003.html   (660 words)

  
 Movies critique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
After 2 hours of this powerfully affecting drama, I'm not sure that life's continuance is such a comfort.
It would be good to be able to reel off a story at the drop of a hat but some of these stories were not very interesting.
But I suppose when u look more closely at it the rest of the mentally ill people in his boarding house were ok. This movie was a true drama, no action and pretty slow moving.
homepages.kcbbs.gen.nz /craigb/Movies.html   (6956 words)

  
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Kagemusha (1980) (***1/2, war, drama) (D.-Akira Kurosawa; Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomo Yamazaki, Kenichi Hagiwara, Jinpachi Nezu, Shuji Otaki) Another Greek tragedy from Kurosawa, involves the death of a war lord on the eve of his uniting Japan.
Killing, The (1956) (***1/2, noir, crime, drama) (12-21-97) (D.-Stanley Kubrick, Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Ted De Corsia, Marie Windsor, Joe Sawyer, Elisha Cook, Timothy Carey) Kubrick's second noticed film and considered a classic.
Kiss of Death (1995) (**, crime, drama) (D.-Barbet Schroeder; David Caruso, Nicolas Cage, Helen Hunt, Kathryn Erbe, Samuel L. Jackson, Stanley Tucci, Micahel Rapaport, Ving Rhames) Disappointing remake of the classic film noir Kiss of Death.
www.people.virginia.edu /~jnd/a-z/k.htm   (7664 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Bosnian TV to show UK crime drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The latest series of the TV drama Prime Suspect, which dealt with Balkan war crimes, will be shown in Bosnia.
He said Bosnian broadcaster Prava I Provedi was keen to show the drama "as it highlights the plight of those caught up in the recent conflict".
The director of Crimestoppers said the service did not tape calls or ask for caller's identities, as had been shown in the drama.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3231454.stm   (288 words)

  
 Barnaby Jones - Crime Drama TV Series - Main Page
Barnaby Jones - Crime Drama TV Series of the Seventies
The crime drama/ detective series Barnaby Jones consists of 171 episodes (60-min., including one two-part episode) and three feature length specials; in all 8 seasons, running from 1973 to 1980.
Often Biddle is astonished when Barnaby already appears at the site of a crime shortly before him.
www.actorbuddyebsen.info /bjones   (1232 words)

  
 Without a doubt: Intelligent missing persons crime drama puts the heat on 'E.R.'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Here are the shows that ABC and CBS have sent into competition against the powerhouse medical drama; none could unseat it.
Part thriller and part sophisticated drama, "Without a Trace" offers a rich mix of stories.
Unlike just about every other drama series that tested time slot fate against "ER," "Without a Trace" isn't about to disappear.
www.freep.com /entertainment/tvandradio/duf3_20030403.htm   (1206 words)

  
 CSI Files - CBS Acquires New Crime Drama
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news on Tuesday that CBS is producing the new crime drama.
Zap2It reported that the show would center around a law enforcement agency whose job it was to track career criminals, and keep them from committing further crimes.
The acquisition of yet another crime drama for CBS is not a huge surprise.
www.csifiles.com /news/311203_01.shtml   (761 words)

  
 PBS watches its mouth rather than pay big fines. Now it's up to the other networks to fight the FCC. / 3 no-nos bleeped ...
With the excising of three not-so-little terms -- "s --," "f -- " and "blow job," -- from a forthcoming drama on PBS, the Hollywood creative community and broadcasters are finding, not to their liking, that a chilling effect on content has already taken place.
Like all broadcast networks, PBS immediately filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission when the agency stepped through the door that Janet Jackson kicked open at the Super Bowl and announced steep fines for any broadcaster that didn't meet more stringent guidelines about content.
Because of this, a new drama called "Cop Shop" starring Richard Dreyfuss and other actors who made a sort of creative labor of love on the cheap for public broadcasting, has been edited to avoid the potential wrath of the FCC.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/12/DDGHK7JE0V1.DTL   (1193 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Death is already at the door of this new crime drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Still, NBC's new crime drama Medium throws in so many potentially fatal flaws of its own, you'd think the network had a death wish.
Start with the premise of this purportedly fact-based drama, which stars Patricia Arquette as Allison DuBois, a wife and mother who solves crimes with the help of the dearly departed.
Even for believers, there are inherent dramatic difficulties in building a show around a crime fighter who can read minds, talk to the dead, tell the future and, for all we know, commune with small animals.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/reviews/2005-01-02-medium_x.htm   (568 words)

  
 Mystery, Crime Drama, Detectives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The FBI In Peace and War crime drama 1944 - 1958
I Was a Communist for the FBI crime drama 1952 - 1953
This Is Your FBI crime drama 1945 - 1953
www.mv.com /ipusers/owsley/crime.htm   (445 words)

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