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Scandalous romantic refraction: Reframing rape culture and coercive control on television Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-12 Laurena Bernabo
This article provides a critical analysis of the Olivia/Fitz relationship in Scandal, exploring their interactions and the program’s treatment of sexual and relational abuse in the context of the popular feminism in U.S. television. Scandal follows Olivia Pope, a political fixer who solves problems for D.C. elites while navigating a tumultuous personal life including an on-again/off-again affair with
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Stretching authenticity in times of restricted mobility: Transtextuality, place anchoring, and boredom in romance reality show 90 Day Fiancé: Self-Quarantined Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Georgia Aitaki
The article explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the production and narrative strategies of the 90 Day Fiancé franchise, focusing on its spin-off, 90 Day Fiancé: Self-Quarantined (2020). It examines how the programme adapted to mobility restrictions and lockdown policies through self-filming, remote interviewing, and focusing on mundane, pandemic-specific activities. Using theories of reality
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Jenna Ng (2021). The Post-Screen through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Shaopeng Chen
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 296-299, February, 2025.
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Victor Fan (2022). Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy through Buddhism Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 William Brown
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 292-295, February, 2025.
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Jean Ma (2022). At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Juan Camilo Velásquez
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 288-291, February, 2025.
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Julian Hanich & Martin P. Rossouw (Eds.) (2023). What Is Film Good For? On the Values of Spectatorship Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Francesco Sticchi
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 283-287, February, 2025.
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Plastic Surgery: Under the Skin, Suture, Destructive Plasticity and Post-Cinematic Ontologies Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Greg Hainge
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 264-282, February, 2025.
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From Ascetic Ideals to Honest Illusions: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Inception Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Yonghwa Lee, Kyoung-Min Han
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 244-263, February, 2025.
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Eternity Descending into Time: Badiou and the Cinematic Temporality of Love Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Lu Zeng
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 221-243, February, 2025.
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Speculative Transitions: Hegel, John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Dissolve Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Joshua Harold Wiebe
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 199-220, February, 2025.
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The Dweller on the Threshold: Whiteness, the Family and the End of Classical Cinema Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Conall Cash
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 169-198, February, 2025.
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Dwelling in the Abyss: Society in Werner Herzog and Martin Heidegger Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Haotian Wu
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 144-168, February, 2025.
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The Action Mode: Mile 22 and the Tension of Hypermediated Embodiment Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Jonah Jeng
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 119-143, February, 2025.
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Cinematic Mythmaking in Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return and The Banishment Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Louis Samuel Mealing
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 94-118, February, 2025.
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The Ethics of Refusal in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Marguerite La Caze, Magdalena Zolkos
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 72-93, February, 2025.
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Kracauer and Tarkovsky’s Cinema of Redemptive Estrangement Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Daniel Sullivan
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 46-71, February, 2025.
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Existential and Phenomenological Horror in Les Diaboliques Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Daniel Tilsley
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 23-45, February, 2025.
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Self-Effacing Barbie: The Ideal, the Real and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 John Michael Corrigan, Justin Prystash
Film-Philosophy, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 1-22, February, 2025.
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Provocation: An agenda for the future of TV studies: Technology, audiences, stakeholders Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-20 Catherine Johnson
As viewing shifts from broadcast to streaming, what should be the role for TV studies? Arguing for the need to account for the multi-faceted nature of contemporary television, this provocation proposes an agenda for the future of TV studies. It argues that the technological consequences of shifting to internet-delivered television demand new theorisations of television as software, new digital tools
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Notes on the state of Brazilian television archives: From scattered initiatives to an uncertain future Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-16 Esther Hamburger, Giancarlo Gozzi, Cecília Mello
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in past television programmes and television memory more broadly, a trend amplified by streaming platforms. This development highlights the critical issue of television archiving and content accessibility. As Brazilian television approaches its 75th anniversary in 2025, this article examines the current state of television archives in Brazil, their
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Book Review: Rethinking horror in the new economies of television Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-13 Amy Harris
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Female audiences for true crime television: Popular discourse, feminism and the politics of ‘ethical viewing’ Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-12 Su Holmes, Claire Hines
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
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Book Review: Mothers on American Television: From Here to Maternity Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Tanya Horeck
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Book Review: Sesame Street: A Transnational History Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-11 Laura Sinclair
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Book Review: Armchair Cinema – A History of Feature Films on British Television 1929–1981 Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-12-06 Kevin Geddes
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‘I am in Great Pain, Please Help Me’: Nihilism, Humour, and Rick and Morty Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-20 Nicholas Holm, Jennalee Donian
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
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Victim behaviour and trauma recovery: Representing black British femininity through fantasy in Michaela Coel’s I May Destroy You Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Richard Bramwell
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
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Exploring Netflix myths: Towards more media industry studies and empirical research in studying video-on-demand Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-11 Karin van Es
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
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Book Review: Audiovisual content for children and adolescents in Scandinavia: Production, distribution, and reception in a multiplatform era Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Ruchi Kher Jaggi
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Bodies, care and power in La Permanence French Screen Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-24 Thomas Austin
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...
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Is prompt engineering the future of screenwriting? Views of professional screenwriters and commissioners about the impact of AI technologies on their profession Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-28 Eliisa Vainikka, Anne Soronen, Saara-Maija Kallio
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
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Book Review: Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-21 Mehdi Achouche
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Book Review: Transmedia/Genre: Rethinking Genre in a Multiplatform Culture Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Marta F Suarez
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Landscapes in the frame: Anthropocene screens Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Irina Souch, Robert A Saunders, Anne Marit Risum Waade
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Book Review: Screen plays: Theatre plays on British television Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Tom May
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Book Review: TV drama in the multiplatform era: Transnational coproduction and cultural specificity Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Max Sexton
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Jacqueline Audry’s Colette films: post-war quality style with a feminist edge French Screen Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Diana Holmes
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...
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Les filles de Méliès: l’exception culturelle, analogue aesthetics and women filmmakers of le cinéma-monde French Screen Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-11 Zeynep Aras, Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
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] ...
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‘And then … ’: new media’s conspiracy theories and counternarratives in Loose Change and The Power of Nightmares Studies in Documentary Film (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-10 Peter Bath
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...
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South Korean Documentary Cinema and remembrance: the past in the present, at Jeonju Film Festival 2024 Studies in Documentary Film (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Patricia Aufderheide
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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Shane Denson (2023). Post-Cinematic Bodies Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Emma Dussouchaud-Esclamadon
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 624-626, October, 2024.
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Matthew Rukgaber (2022). Nietzsche in Hollywood: Images of the Übermensch in Early American Cinema Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Paolo Stellino
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 620-623, October, 2024.
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Steven DeLay (ed.) (2023). Life Above the Clouds: Philosophy in the Films of Terrence Malick Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Martin Woessner
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 616-619, October, 2024.
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Francesco Sticchi (2021). Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television: Chronotopes of Anxiety, Depression, Expulsion/Extinction Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Tim Lindemann
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 612-615, October, 2024.
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The Pleasure of Self-erasure: Malabou, (Sexual) Anarchy and Agnès Varda’s Sans toit ni loi Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Monique Rooney
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 586-611, October, 2024.
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Derivative Desires and Plastic Pedagogies: Malabou, Psychoanalysis and The Big Short Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Scott Krzych
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 561-585, October, 2024.
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Malabou, Medicine and Film: Screening Brain Injury, Organ Transplantation and Plasticity in Katell Quillévéré's Heal the Living Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Benjamin Dalton
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 534-560, October, 2024.
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Feminist Epigenet(h)ics: Maternal Waters, Gestational Forms and Mitochondrial Eves in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Evolution Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Katie Goss
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 504-533, October, 2024.
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What Is the Work of Animation? The Plasticity of Time in the Fourth-Dimensional Image Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Cassandra Guan
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 477-503, October, 2024.
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Voir venir the New Wave: Plasticity in Jacques Rivette’s Film Criticism Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Marco Grosoli
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 454-476, October, 2024.
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Malabou's Cineplastics and Contemporary French Film: Jacques Audiard, Céline Sciamma and Mia Hansen-Løve Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Martin O’Shaughnessy
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 428-453, October, 2024.
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Introduction: Catherine Malabou, Plasticity and Film Film-Philosophy (IF 0.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-25 Benjamin Dalton, Ben Tyrer
Film-Philosophy, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 413-427, October, 2024.
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Gay as cute: Unpacking cuteness in contemporary gay teen drama series Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Frederik Dhaenens, Ben De Smet
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
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Monstres et monstruosités de Denis Lavant French Screen Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Aurélien Gras
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 ...
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Re-heating the “First” Thanksgiving: the Thanksgiving episode as settler colonial narrative Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Olivia Stowell
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
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Enraged to live: reviving Liliane de Kermadec’s Aloïse French Screen Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Tim Palmer
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...
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Awakening contaminated lands: (Re)mediated landscapes as transcultural TV memory work, a case study of Sky/HBO miniseries, Chernobyl (2019) Critical Studies in Television (IF 0.9) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Janet McCabe
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
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‘Life lessons’: Gender, popular cinema and cinephilia French Screen Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Ginette Vincendeau
Published in French Screen Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Screening race, streaming Frenchness: Women of colour on French Netflix French Screen Studies (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Loïc Bourdeau, Gemma King
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...