This article draws on data from 18 semi-structured interviews with women which explore their relations with true crime television. Complicating popular and academic arguments that such relations operate pedagogically (that true crime offers a form of ‘safety advice’ for women), the data attests to the participants’ reflexive negotiation of ethics as a frame through which viewing investments are presented

One of Cartoon Network’s most successful shows ever, Rick and Morty (2013–present) has established a cult following for its blend of dark humour and existential themes. However, the show is more than just a representation of popular nihilism; through its sustained engagement with nihilistic themes, it also demonstrates how nihilism can be embraced, exhausted, and potentially eventually surpassed in

This paper examines the representation of trauma recovery in the television series I May Destroy You ( 2020 ). Research on rape in fictional television programmes overwhelmingly focus on rape myths or how rape is represented. There is scant research on recovery from rape trauma in television drama. This paper contributes to scholarship on rape in fictional television, through a focus on the process

Using Netflix as a lens, this article identifies and unpacks three central interrelated myths – binge-watching, on-demand, and big data – surrounding global video-on-demand services. These myths are problematic because they make certain ideas about these services seem natural and self-evident, restricting our understanding of their role in culture and society. Moreover, these services provide little

This article tracks the political and ethical positions taken up by Alice Diop’s documentary La Permanence/On Call (2016) in relation to its subjects, both outpatients and hospital staff. It begins...

This article presents a qualitative interview study of Finnish screenwriters and commissioners about the impact of generative artificial intelligence on the profession of screenwriting. We ask how screenwriters and commissioners see the benefits and risks of AI tools in screenwriting and how screenwriters see their changing profession in the future. We identify three stances towards AI-driven work

Jacqueline Audry was that rare phenomenon, a woman film director in mid-twentieth century France. Drawn to Colette’s work by her appreciation of the latter’s style and close affinity with her value...

This article examines transnational francophone films from writer-directors Marjane Satrapi and Chloé Mazlo, filmmakers who show how the politics of l’exception culturelle [the cultural exception] ...

This paper re-asserts the politically contested status of new media as a site of both conspiracy theories and counterhegemonic narratives through analyses of Dylan Avery’s Loose Change and Adam Cur...

Korean documentary film has historically both been designed as a contribution to political life and also as a creative exploration in the growing film industry. Documentary in the service of politi...

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Since the late 2010s, there has been a surge in gay teen drama series that portray their gay male protagonists as cute. This article focuses on four series ( Heartstopper, Young Royals, Love, Victor, and wtFOCK) and examines which formal and narrative practices are used to convey cuteness. It argues that, first, each series participates in the creation of the cute gay boy archetype; second, each series

La persona d’acteur de Denis Lavant semble nouée autour de la figure du monstre. C’est d’abord au plan physique que s’exprime sa monstruosité. En effet, son visage contrevient aux canons de beauté ...

Thanksgiving-themed episodes of cooking television open up questions about the interrelations of food, history, power, and culture. This study addresses such questions through textual and thematic analysis of 46 Thanksgiving-themed episodes of reality cooking competition programmes on US cable TV, exploring how the Thanksgiving episode operates as a site for the deployment of the culinary as a category

This article argues for the historiographic value of the long-neglected film Aloïse (1975). Directed by Liliane de Kermadec, Agnès Varda’s protégée, Aloïse is a biopic of Aloïse Corbaz, a Swiss gov...

This article focuses on the five-part miniseries, Chernobyl (2019), with its contaminated landscape that deals with a troubled, traumatic history. It takes inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin and his concept of historical materialism, but principally draws on theoretical paradigms dealing with transcultural memory, to advance a discussion on memory work, (re)mediation of historical events

Published in French Screen Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This article builds on the emerging scholarship on Netflix productions and French series to analyse questions of racial visibility and feminine representation in two series: Dix pour cent/Call My A...

François Ozon’s Regarde la mer/See the Sea uses the generic codes of a psychological thriller in order to portray femininity in a state of flux. Although Ozon is one of the most established contemp...

In 2021, the restoration of the long-lost French film El jefe político (‘The Political Boss’, released as La Réponse du destin in France) was finally completed. Directed by André Hugon between 1924...

The long-running French detective series Engrenages/Spiral (2005–2020) anticipates and participates in the changing ecosystem of French TV, one that transnationalises and hybridises content in a gl...

This article considers the parallels that can be drawn between two characters portrayed by Sandrine Bonnaire at distinct junctures in her film career: Mona, a young homeless woman whose wanderings ...

The study is concerned with the possibility of reframing the visibility of migrants onscreen in Želimir Žilnik’s documentary films. It is claimed that Žilnik’s selected works such as the Kennedi tr...

Cet article revient sur le « réalisme psychologique » d’après-guerre à travers la collaboration artistique du scénariste Jacques Sigurd et du réalisateur Yves Allégret entre 1948 et 1952, en se foc...

This paper provides an exploration of the creative and ethical challenges that emerged from producing a 360-degree documentary demo, focusing on two Greek drag artists who live in Athens. It introd...

This article focuses on Juliette Binoche’s career during the past decade, a period running from her mid-forties to her mid-fifties, and suggests that her roles in this period can also be read as a ...

Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This article is based on a three-year-long content analysis of the use of reality TV content on the front pages of four popular video streaming services in Denmark: DRTV, TV 2 Play, Viaplay, and Netflix. The results give rare insights into front pages that are normally hidden behind logins but also longitudinal perspectives about the services’ changing curation practices. In particular, the two institutions

In 1998, Judy Singer coined the term neurodiversity to describe the variance in human neurology in a non-pathological way, countering the mainstream understanding of certain neurotypes as disordere...

Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2006) follows the life of a mattress as it traverses across the busy streets of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This transient mattress brings together three ...

Agnès Varda’s Cléo de 5 à 7/Cléo from 5 to 7 begins with a divination session that launches a process by which the protagonist will shed her public persona in favour of an inner form of self-awaren...

Published in New Review of Film and Television Studies (Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024)

Published in New Review of Film and Television Studies (Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024)

Published in New Review of Film and Television Studies (Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024)

Published in New Review of Film and Television Studies (Vol. 22, No. 2, 2024)

Published in Studies in Documentary Film (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Une fenêtre ouverte/An Open Window (2005), a documentary by the Senegalese writer and filmmaker Khady Sylla, offers an intimate, unsettling portrait of the mental health difficulties suffered by bo...