CSI Miami and Law & Order: Categories & Production

Media: Institution: Course: Date: CSI Miami and Law & Order Since the inception of the media production and broadcasting, there have been quite some developments on that front. The age of television series production has certainly been at the forefront of the developments that have been taking place in this field. There more TV shows and series than one would care to count. Each and even show comes with its own set of themes and objectives, setting, cast and costumes among others. More often than not, people will have some favorite shows that they watch from time to time. The different shows will achieve differently, the elements of race, class and ethnicity when evaluated against the Gray’s watching review, relative to categories representation (Gray, 2004). At the same time, there are different representations and production conventions that are achieved by the different directors. Authenticity of the representation of the various aspects also comes to question as different directors will apply different techniques. At the same time the elements associated with the popular culture representation when evaluated against the race, class and ethnicity aspects will reveal very unique social and cultural dialogue issues. Of interest in this evaluation are the shows CSI Miami and Law & Order. These are both American drama series and they mimic the general practices and process in the fields of law and order finding justice for the victims of various crimes, apprehending the criminals and finding the motives of the various crimes all in different approaches. Categories The two shows bring out some elements of categories representation that are quite unique to the themes that they trying to drive to their audiences. In reference to the components of social class, race and ethnicity, there is a common theme that can be identifies in the two shows ("Race, ethnicity, and policing - From The Square", 2018). Most of the characters in their stories are largely Caucasian and the rest of the races are represented in very few incidences. This connects to the element of how justice system is viewed in the United States. Most of the people in the justice system are Caucasian and only a few are minority. This would explain why aspects such as police brutality are associated with whites intimidating the other minorities such as the blacks in the society. At the same time the show use most of the characters that are in their middle class. Generally this depicts the officers who are working the cases, in the mid of the career development. As such, these will be people in the middle class even economically as they build their professions. Generally, most of the superiors who are few will be at the top of the career, but then they represent a small number. In the case of the victims however most of them are in the higher and lower social classes. Ideally, crime relates to the lower classes attacking the higher classes or the vice versa. This is a common trend that tends to indicate rivalry between the two classes. From an overall point of view, the two shows have some high level of professionalism when it comes to the representation of the roles and the stories. The idea being to represent the al the facets of the life of a detective including...