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Oceanic feeling in Mati Diop’s Atlantique French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Elisabeth Hodges
The ocean is a constant presence in Mati Diop’s award-winning film Atlantique/Atlantics (2019), a ghostly love story about the ongoing migration crisis set in Dakar, Senegal. A critical issue Diop ...
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Global Gallicisms: the postnational popular in francophone European film and television since 2010 French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Mary Harrod, Raphaëlle Moine
Published in French Screen Studies (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2024)
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The construction of ‘Jacques Becker’: realism, popular film and the auteur in 1950s film criticism French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Sarah Leahy
Jacques Becker is well known as an auteur, one of the few French directors working in the post-war period who has been hailed as an ‘uncle’ of the New Wave (alongside Robert Bresson, Max Ophuls, Je...
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Chelsea Birks (2021). Limit Cinema: Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Augustin
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 409-412, June, 2024.
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Daniel Mourenza (2020). Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Hyojin Yoon
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 405-408, June, 2024.
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David Martin-Jones (2022). Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7 Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Timna Rauch
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 400-404, June, 2024.
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Chiara Quaranta (2023). Iconoclasm in European Cinema: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Image Destruction Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Francesco Sticchi
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 395-399, June, 2024.
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The Filter and the Viewer: On Audience Discretion in Film Noir Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Steven G. Smith
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 375-394, June, 2024.
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Home Movies as Reliquaries of Memory: A Phenomenological Perspective Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Lourdes Esqueda Verano
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 350-374, June, 2024.
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Blue Boys: Maurice Pialat, Nicolas Poussin and the Work of Art Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 David A. Gerstner
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 322-349, June, 2024.
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Inauthenticity as a Disruption of Neoliberal Resilience Discourse in Brady Corbet's Vox Lux Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Alice Pember
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 294-321, June, 2024.
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Every Wholly Other: Postsecular Pluralism in Isabel Rocamora's Faith Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Mark Cauchi
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 269-293, June, 2024.
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Even the Sea is Broken: Return and Loss in Razan AlSalah’s Video Works Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Samira Makki
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 248-268, June, 2024.
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Nietzschean Themes in Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Paolo Stellino
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 226-247, June, 2024.
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Anima(l) Moralia, or Righteous Anger: Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Elżbieta Ostrowska
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 202-225, June, 2024.
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New Materialist Freedom in Chloé Zhao's Nomadland Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Randy Laist
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 181-201, June, 2024.
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When the Wind Is Gently Rustling: Film and the Aesthetics of Natural Beauty Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Julian Hanich
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 153-180, June, 2024.
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From #AltErLove to #LoveIsLove: Transmedia formats, audience engagement and sexual diversity Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Thalia Van Wichelen, Esther De Loose, Alexander Dhoest, Sander De Ridder
SKAM (2015–2017) and its Flemish adaptation wtFOCK (2018–2021) use several digital platforms to provide viewers with content, enabling different types of audience engagement. By means of a social media analysis, this study investigates how producers utilise transmedia tools to enhance viewers’ involvement with the depicted storyline and how viewers interact with the provided content on LGBTQ issues
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‘To possible what ifs’: promises, reenactment and other horizons in francophone cinema French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Jeremi Szaniawski
Published in French Screen Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Fashioning the intimate: a cartography of autobiographical French documentary film French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Rémi Fontanel
In the 1980s, the French documentary field opened up to a number of autobiographical practices which redrew the frontiers of the cinematic landscape. L’Heure exquise (‘The exquisite hour’) (René Al...
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Anatole Litvak: a unique figure among émigré filmmakers in 1930s French cinema French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Nedjma Moussaoui
Anatole Litvak, a Russian Jew who began his career at Ufa in Berlin, was one of the German émigrés who settled in France after Hitler came to power. His case is little known, yet it is both singula...
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Pleasure’s ascendancy: Against queer youth panic Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Timothy Gitzen
This article explores both US and European streaming shows that feature a protagonist in scenes of queer youth sex, focusing on how the show treats and frames these scenes as constitutive of a broader representational narrative of queer youth sex(uality). By comparing US and European shows, I argue that queer pleasure supplants panic featured in each show by framing the scenes of queer youth sex as
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La tétralogie « judiciaire » d’André Cayatte face à la cinéphilie de l’après-guerre French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Jean Montarnal
La tétralogie « judiciaire » réalisée entre 1950 et 1955 par André Cayatte a apporté au réalisateur une notoriété paradoxale : reconnue par la presse et le public, la plupart des histoires du ciném...
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Book Review: Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics and Medium Specificity Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Tom Hemingway
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Book Review: Transnational Korean Television: Cultural Storytelling and Digital Audiences Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Julia Stolyar
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Henri Verneuil (1920–2002) – cinéaste de première classe French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Susan Hayward
Albeit a director scornfully dismissed by the Cahiers du cinéma’s ‘Young Turks’, writing in the 1950s, as part and parcel of the derided ‘cinéma de papa’, Henri Verneuil was, as this essay will sho...
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Speculative worlds: anthropocentric realities and world-building in speculative documentaries Studies in Documentary Film Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Eneos Çarka
This paper examines the anti-anthropocentric world-building in documentaries that employ aspeculative mode of inquiry and reckon with the ecological crisis. Dubbed speculative documentaries, they m...
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Culture as window dressing? A threefold methodological framework for researching the locality of Netflix series Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Daphne R Idiz, Julia Noordegraaf, Rens Vliegenthart
Considering the implications of Netflix’s role as a content producer for cultural diversity in Europe, this methodological article investigates how to define and measure the locality of Netflix Originals. We employ a threefold methodological study based on industry data analysis, audience reception research, and content analysis. This replicable and scalable methodological design provides a solid analytical
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Othered form and insectile subjectile: Under the Skin New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Fabienne Collignon
This article investigates Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 film Under the Skin as it pertains to the ‘insectile’ or, in other words, to an entomological imagination. The insectile, I argue, is structured acc...
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Screening contemporary Irish fiction and drama New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Emma Radley
Published in New Review of Film and Television Studies (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024)
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Labors of love New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Maria San Filippo
Published in New Review of Film and Television Studies (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024)
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“I want to be good:” morality, faith, and female spectatorial pleasure during World War I New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Diana W. Anselmo
In this article, I draw on a handful of personal fan collections created in the first decade of the star system to examine how schoolgirls of faith engaged Hollywood cinema as a visual vernacular t...
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“Some things are proper, and some things are not”: forgotten men and disciplined women in My Man Godfrey New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Anna Siomopoulos
My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936) begins with a critique of Depression-era public relief efforts but then focuses for the remainder of the film on the attempts of one ‘forgotten man’ to restor...
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Earners and spenders, husbands and wives: the affective restraints on women’s labor in high Cold War American sitcoms New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Emily Naser-Hall
The affective dimensions of labor and the ways in which gendered representations of affect can be deployed as a justification for limiting women’s participation in the workforce constitute a founda...
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Female Convict Scorpion: production context, gender politics, and cinematic excesses in a Japanese women-in-prison film series New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Leung Wing-Fai
This article focuses on Female Convict Scorpion, a Japanese women-in-prison film series (1972–1973), which exemplifies studio-produced exploitation cinema. The series is influenced by the contempor...
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Cityscapes, trance states, and women walking: embodied practices of walking in experimental film and video New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Kornelia Boczkowska
Commonly associated with the cinema of Béla Tarr and Gus Van Sant, walking on screen has received relatively little attention from researchers despite the ongoing popularity of wayfaring films and ...
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‘This is my house now!’: Fighting with My Family, the female underdog and constructing a public history of WWE New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Matthew Robinson
Fighting with My Family (2019) details the rags-to-riches story of British professional wrestler Saraya-Jade Bevis (Florence Pugh), who became the youngest winner of the World Wrestling Entertainme...
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Girls gone wild: animality, female teenagers, and disidentification in contemporary European cinema New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Cristina Ruiz-Poveda Vera
Contemporary European cinema insistently depicts female teenagers in association with non-human animals. This article focuses on a group of films in which the teenage protagonists approach animalit...
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Shit happens on the big screen: faecal motifs in contemporary film New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Marzena Keating, Joanna Łapińska
The aim of this article is to analyse various excremental motifs and their functions in selected contemporary films. Drawing on concepts such as Julia Kristeva’s abject, Mary Douglas’s taboo and Mi...
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Ghost riders: Kelly Reichardt, certain women, certain men New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Janet Bergstrom
Kelly Reichardt pays attention to women’s actions and subjectivities, often when they are alone, but not at the expense of men. It takes seeing her films more than once to understand how intricatel...
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Introduction: women’s authorship and adaptation in contemporary television New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sarah Louise Smyth, Stefania Marghitu
This special dossier examines issues in women’s authorship and adaptation in contemporary television. Recently, in the television streaming era, there have been a number of significant television s...
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Televisual authorship and the affective feminism of HBO’s Sharp Objects adaptation New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jessica Ford
Sharp Objects (2018) has been widely read by journalists and critics as ‘feminist’, and broadly speaking, the miniseries’ feminism has been attributed to its subversion of crime television tropes a...
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Reese Witherspoon’s popular feminism: adaptation and authorship in Big Little Lies New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Sarah Louise Smyth
Through her programmes, including Big Little Lies (2017–2019), The Morning Show (2019–), and Little Fires Everywhere (2020), Reese Witherspoon has been central to the recent rise of women-centric t...
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Adaptation, authorship and the critical conversations of Little Fires Everywhere New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Shelley Cobb
This article argues for an understanding of contemporary women’s television as a twenty-first century iteration of Lauren Berlant’s concept of the ‘intimate public’ of femininity, by analysing how ...
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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: feminism and the adaptation of true crime in the #MeToo era New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Tanya Horeck
This article considers what Liz Garbus’s television version of Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark (HBO, 2018) reveals about true-crime adaptation in a post #MeToo era, particularly in rel...
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“The mother is a child, too”: neoliberal segmentarity, reproductive futurism, and relationality in Enlightened New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Karim Townsend
This article examines Mike White and Laura Dern’s HBO series Enlightened (2011–13) in relation to questions of segmentarity, motherhood, feminism, reproductive futurism, and neoliberal capitalism. ...
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Lost souls, victims and deviants: radicalization and gender in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Eve Bennett
The Marvel TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which is set in a fictional American intelligence agency, reproduces contemporary media, academic, and governmental discourse surrounding violent radica...
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Roundtable on women’s authorship and adaptation in contemporary television New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Stefania Marghitu, Sarah Louise Smyth
This roundtable took place in summer 2023 and sought to capture current thinking on women’s authorship and adaptation in contemporary television. The roundtable brought together emerging and more e...
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Woman up: invoking feminism in quality television New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Júlia Irion Martins
Published in New Review of Film and Television Studies (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024)
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Their own best creations: women writers in postwar television New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Maureen Mauk
Published in New Review of Film and Television Studies (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024)
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List of Reviewers 2020–2023 New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-28
Published in New Review of Film and Television Studies (Vol. 22, No. 1, 2024)
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Le biopic français contemporain : un genre populaire postnational ? French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Raphaëlle Moine
Cet article explore les dynamiques contradictoires à l’œuvre dans les biopics français contemporains qui apparaissent d’une part comme les symptômes d’une culture cinématographique globalisée, ce d...
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Recreating 1969 Los Angeles in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Journal of Popular Film and Television Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Douglas Rasmussen
In Quentin Tarantino’s film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, the director meticulously recreates 1969 Los Angeles. The film, however, presents a highly stylized interpretation of that period in hist...
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THE BRITISH TRAUMA FILM: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND POPULAR BRITISH CINEMA IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. By Adam Plummer. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 240 pp. $108 hardcover. Journal of Popular Film and Television Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Heather Duerre Humann
Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Vol. 51, No. 4, 2023)
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The Clothes Make the Woman: How Fashion Informs the Comedic Identity of Schitt’s Creek’s Moira Rose Journal of Popular Film and Television Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Judith Clemens-Smucker
The Canadian television comedy Schitt’s Creek (2015–2020) tells the story of the Rose family after they are reduced to poverty through the machinations of a criminal business manager and must take ...
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The Dead Don’t Die: Genre, Parody, and the Failure of the American Zombie as an Agent of Social Change Journal of Popular Film and Television Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Lauren Crockett-Girard
Jim Jarmusch’s 2019 zombie flick The Dead Don’t Die uses comedy to both critique the zombie genre and confront the many horrors of twenty-first century life. Zombies are symbols for human anxieties...
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Transcultural Comedy in Man Like Mobeen (2017-2023): How the BBC is Merging “Us”/“Them.” Journal of Popular Film and Television Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Alex Symons
This article examines Guz Khan’s innovative television comedy Man Like Mobeen (2017–2023), explaining how it serves the BBC’s 2016 remit to produce socially-cohesive representations, portraying Bri...
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The Appeal of WIP-ped Flesh: Jess Franco’s 99 Women (1968) at the Box Office Journal of Popular Film and Television Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Vincent L. Barnett
This research investigates in detail the surprisingly successful US box-office performance of Jess Franco’s first women-in-prison (WIP) production, 99 Women (1968), which for one week in May 1969 h...