Bøker av Michael Allen

CSI is a global television phenomenon. It began in 2000 with "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", a dark procedural drama about forensic science set within the neon escapism of Las Vegas. This book pieces together the evidence in order to understand what the CSI shows mean to contemporary television culture, both in America and beyond.

At the height of the Cold War between America and Russia, hundreds of spacecrafts travelled into outer space. They sent back awe-inspiring images and sounds from Earth orbit, the Moon, and the planets of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. This work is an exploratory story of this cultural and political phenomenon.

Contemporary US Cinema examines important developments in American film-making over the past three decades, citing them as instances both of change and of continuity within the practices and processes of earlier phases of classic Hollywood cinema.