Cultural Observation Case Study

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Cultural Observation The television program Criminal Minds is a modern police procedural which deals with the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) criminal profiling unit, the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). Throughout the episodes of the program, the situation is set up so it is "us vs. them" with the FBI representing law and order and their opposition representing criminality. There are two sets of characterizations, those in law enforcement and the perpetrators of crime. From an aesthetic perspective, the characters are designed to look like they belong to one of these two factions. Either they are part of the professional world of the FBI, or they are part of the outside world where they might dress similar to the investigators but exhibit their differences from the law-abiding via their personalities. This is not only limited to the good guy vs. bad guy dynamic, but also found within the collection...

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The longer a series runs, the fewer original characters appear on it and more new additions are made to the cast. The very nature of the program also has a new villain entering the cast every week, or every few weeks if there is a longer story arc being explored. Consequently, the characters have to be defined quickly when they are first introduced in order to hasten the audience's understanding of a new addition and to lessen the amount of screen time which is removed from the action of the episode.
Throughout the eight seasons of the show that have already aired, and likely will continue through the coming ninth season; there have been two types of characters within the FBI side of the investigation. There…

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