Entertaining the Audience: A Contemporary Audio-visual Portrayal of the Detective Tale through Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and CBS’s C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation

Abstract

The audio-visual industry offered a place for the detective story to continue increasing in popularity during the 20th and 21st centuries. Movies and TV shows ensured wider audiences had the privilege to be told stories than otherwise would be restricted to a more culturized public. The famous television production by CBS, C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, brought a new way to tell detective stories to homes all around the glove, introducing a more scientific and resourceful police force that contrasted with the ineffectual 19th-century one. The tenth season of the series, however, evokes those old detective stories with its particular adaptation of Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as not only one of the most outstanding gothic tales, but also a story of a crime.