ABSTRACT

Les Revenants, a Canal+ TV series about a small town whose dead return to life, was one of the biggest critical and popular successes of the 2010s on the domestic and international markets. While the series has been discussed by the French popular press as part of a concerted effort among French production companies to compete in long-form serial television, its engagement with the tradition of French horror has been less well understood. This essay examines how the series brings a distinctly French sense of the fantastic into an international media landscape in which Hollywood films have typically defined the global idiom of horror around sensation and the body. In so doing, the article suggests that French films and series have played an important role in redefining what horror can mean in the early twenty-first century.

摘要

Les Revenants是 Canal+ 电视连续剧，讲述了一个小镇死而复生的故事，是 2010 年代在国内和国际市场上最重要和最受欢迎的成功之一。虽然法国大众媒体已经讨论了该系列作为法国制作公司在长篇连续电视中竞争的共同努力的一部分，但它与法国恐怖传统的联系却鲜为人知。这篇文章探讨了该系列如何将法国特有的奇幻感带入国际媒体版图，在好莱坞电影通常围绕感觉和身体定义恐怖的全球习语。在这样做的过程中，文章表明法国电影和连续剧在重新定义 21 世纪初期恐怖的含义方面发挥了重要作用。