Pop Culture & Crime - An Overview
Posted in Podcasts on March 27th, 2007
Barb and Susie have always been interested in the dark side of pop culture. In this episode, they explore how crime and violence has been integrated into TV, movies, books and music until we hardly even notice it anymore. And what’s with the popularity of forensics? Add a little Hollywood cleavage and its all good or watch Forensics on Court TV for the real thing.
Music: “Crime” by The Tiger Lillies from the CD The Brothel To The Cemetery
Bernadette in Australia says:
I used to work for our state government forensics lab (as a computer tech not a scientist). The documentation expert there would quite literally go nuts at some of the stuff that Grissom etc can get away with on TV and the movies with respect to handwriting. If you look at some of these TV shows it only takes a scribbled three-word note to send some criminal off to jail but in reality handwriting is a much less exact science than the fictional world would have you believe. Everyone would get to the office early on the morning after a CSI or Law & Order had depicted some unrealistic crime solution via handwriting had been on TV the night before ‘cos this guy would be guaranteed to do a rant and rave for about an hour about how wrong they got it. It was great entertainment
March 29th, 2007 at 6:09 pm