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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...
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ALINE MACMAHON: HOLLYWOOD, THE BLACKLIST, AND THE BIRTH OF METHOD ACTING. By John Stangeland. UP of Kentucky, 2022. 340 pp. $40.00 (hardcover). Journal of Popular Film and Television Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Danielle Glassmeyer
Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Vol. 51, No. 4, 2023)
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THE GOLDEN AGE MUSICALS OF DARRYL F. ZANUCK: THE GENTLEMAN PREFERRED BLONDES. By Bernard F. Dick. Mississippi UP, 2022. 320 pp. $35.00 cloth Journal of Popular Film and Television Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Paul N. Reinsch
Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Vol. 51, No. 4, 2023)
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Fragmented but not dead: auteurism lives on French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Freddie Robinson, Zoe Savage
Published in French Screen Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Bibliography for French and francophone cinema and television 2023 French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Marion Hallet
Published in French Screen Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Special issue: French television then and now French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Ben McCann
Published in French Screen Studies (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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Agnès Varda : la cinéaste de la Nouvelle Vague vue par le petit écran French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Florence Tissot
Dans cet article, l’autrice étudie les interventions d’Agnès Varda à la télévision française et la manière dont cette dernière a forgé une image genrée de la cinéaste. Dans ses reportages, journaux...
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Working inside/out films division: the discursive documentary practices of Joshy Joseph Studies in Documentary Film Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Rajesh James
Films Division stands as one of the pioneering institutions in post-independent India that played a crucial role in shaping and envisioning the country's identity as a post-colonial nation. Establi...
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Binge-watching and mental illness versus comfort TV and mental health in WandaVision Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Christopher L Moore, Chris Comerford, Ren Vettoretto
WandaVision launched the Disney+ subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform by blending the sitcom and the superhero genres in a nostalgia-inducing fusion of Marvel comics, cinema and television. The series represents the canonisation of Marvel media into a single cohesive narrative ‘multiverse’, yet the story focuses on the personal experience of the character, Wanda, and her struggle with loss
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From Versailles to No Man’s Land: French broadcasters and the new geopolitical reality of the audiovisual industry French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Kira Kitsopanidou, Olivier Thévenin
Based on the examples of Versailles, a series co-produced by Capa Drama with the Quebec company Incendo and Zodiak Fiction for Canal+, and No Man’s Land, a Franco-Belgian-Israeli co-production prod...
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Rediscovering Guy Gilles, pioneer of queer French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Marion Schmid
This article positions Guy Gilles (1938–1996), an overlooked filmmaker at the periphery of the French New Wave, as an important pioneer of queer cinema. Situating Gilles in the context of the Frenc...
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Positive masculinity or toxic positivity? Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso as a capitalist utopia Critical Studies in Television Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Alexander Hudson Beare, Robert Boucaut
Ted Lasso (2020-present) follows American Football coach, Ted Lasso, as he transforms the waning English Premier League team, AFC Richmond, through his relentless optimism and his mantra of ‘believe’. The show has been praised by critics for its emphasis on kindness and particularly for its exploration of ‘positive’ and ‘vulnerable’ masculinities. It is placed front and centre not just in promotion
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Reassessing the French film industry, past and present French Screen Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Elizabeth Miller
Published in French Screen Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Genevieve Yue (2021). Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Laura Staab
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 148-151, February, 2024.
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Eugenie Brinkema (2022). Life-Destroying Diagrams Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Archie Wolfman
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 144-147, February, 2024.
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Padraic Killeen (2022). The Dark Interval: Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 William B. Covey
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 140-143, February, 2024.
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Kelli Fuery (2022). Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film Phenomenology Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Kate Ince
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 136-139, February, 2024.
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Matilda Mroz (2020). Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Emily-Rose Baker
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 131-135, February, 2024.
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Response to Critical Views of Phenomenology of Film Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Shawn Loht
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 113-130, February, 2024.
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A Mud Doctor Checking Out the Earth Underneath: Ruminations on Malick’s Days of Heaven and Loht’s Phenomenology of Film Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jason M. Wirth
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 98-112, February, 2024.
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Cinematic Rehearsals of Phenomenology: On the Ontic-Ontological Schema and Heideggerian Film Theory Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 John Rhym
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 79-97, February, 2024.
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Dasein and the Question of the Heterogenous Film Viewer: A Commentary on Loht’s Heideggerian Phenomenology of Film Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Annie Sandrussi
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 62-78, February, 2024.
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Reflexive Wonderings: Prospects and Parameters of a Heideggerian Approach to Film as Philosophy Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Martin P. Rossouw
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 47-61, February, 2024.
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In the Mood for Heideggerian Boredom? Film Viewership as Being-in-the-World Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Chiara Quaranta
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 31-46, February, 2024.
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An Ambiguous World of Film: Cinematic Immersion beyond Early Heidegger Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Ludo de Roo
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 11-30, February, 2024.
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Introduction: Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Film Film-Philosophy Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Robert Sinnerbrink
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 1-10, February, 2024.
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Futures past and present: history, architecture and dystopia in Brazil (1985) and the Hunger Games series (2012-15) New Review of Film and Television Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Jonathan Stubbs, Marko Kiessel
This article examines the temporality of recent science fiction films, specifically the ways in which architectural histories are used to imagine and characterise dystopias of the future. Drawing o...
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BLOODY WOMEN: WOMEN DIRECTORS OF HORROR Eds. Victoria McCollum and Aislinn Clarke. Lehigh UP and Rowman & Littlefield, 2022. 244 pp. £ 100.00 hardcover Journal of Popular Film and Television Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Antonio Sanna
Published in Journal of Popular Film and Television (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2023)