Gary Totten (English) presented an invited paper, "The Naturalist Visual Aesthetic of Contemporary Television Crime Series," at a symposium, "American Literary Naturalism and the Visual/Digital," in Cork, Ireland, October 14-15, 2022. Totten discussed how television crime series such as True Detective, Ozark, and Bloodline, through the visual representation of time, explore questions about natural law, human existence and brutishness, and characters' entrapment by uncontrollable forces, even amid moments of human connection.
