Category: Crime
THE COPING WORKING-CLASS: RECENT BRITISH REAL CRIME DRAMAS AND WORKING-CLASS WOMEN by Elke Weissmann
It is the end of May, and we are coming to the end, I assume, of the high-budget, ‘quality’,...
Read MoreWHAT WE LEARNT FROM SAM AND TRACEY: DOES THE NEW TWIN PEAKS DIFFER TO CONTEMPORARY ‘QUALITY TV’? by Ross Garner
May 27, 2017 | Blogs, Crime, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, Drama | 0
N.B. This article contains SPOILERS relating to the FIRST FOUR EPISODES OF THE NEW SERIES OF TWIN...
Read MoreTHE CROWN FAILS TO TAKE THE CROWN AT BAFTAS by Lyndsay Duthie
May 17, 2017 | BBC, Blogs, Costume/Historical Drama, Crime, Genres, Netflix, Public Service Broadcasting | 0
The big question of this year’s BAFTAs was how many awards Netflix would romp home with. Most of...
Read MoreBFI Media Conference 2017, 29-30 June, BFI Southbank, London, UK
May 13, 2017 | Animation, Children's TV, Conferences/events, Crime, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, Game Shows, Genres, Reality TV, Soap Opera, Sport, Symposia, Teaching | 0
The BFI Media Conference is a unique event for teachers of film and media at 16+ and in HE,...
Read MoreCFP: Women Who Kill in English-speaking Cinema and TV Series of the Postfeminist Era
Nov 24, 2016 | CFPs, CFPs books/edited collections, Crime, Drama, Transnational TV | 0
Call for Chapters Within the fields of film and television studies, feminist critics and scholars of the 1980s and 1990s have extensively analyzed the figures of women murderers in classical film genres like film noir and...
Read MoreA TALE OF TWO POSTERS: NEGOTIATING PARATEXTUALITY AND AFFECT IN ‘OFFICIAL’ AND ‘UNOFFICIAL’ PUBLICITY FOR THE NEW TWIN PEAKS by Ross Garner
Jun 9, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Cult TV/Sci Fi/Horror, Quality TV, US TV | 0
In this blog post I want to challenge the separation of ‘official’ and ‘unofficial’ paratexts as divergent trajectories within what Jonathan Hardy (2011) has named the ‘commercial intertextuality’ of contemporary television series.
Read MoreGENRE OUT OF THE BOX ON MISS FISHER’S MURDER MYSTERIES: THE EVOLUTION OF A CRITIC, PART TWO by Martha P. Nochimson
Part Two: Whose Show? [Part Two of “GENRE OUT OF THE BOX” delves further into the connection between genre and gender] In Part One, I explored the genre hybridity of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and began my inquiry...
Read MoreA WOMAN’S WOMAN. ‘MUTUAL MUSES’ IN JESSICA JONES AND HAPPY VALLEY by Kenneth Longden
Netflix’s Jessica Jones and the BBC’s Happy Valley, on the surface, may seem to provide different viewing experiences, yet they share certain distinctions beyond the obvious element of both series depicting leading female...
Read MoreFACES AND LANDSCAPES: THE CHANGING LOOK OF TELEVISION DRAMA by Christine Geraghty
Mar 17, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Drama, Performance, Quality TV, UK TV | 0
Episode 4 of the Icelandic drama Trapped (2015), currently showing on BBC 4, finished with a spectacular avalanche. The avalanche had been predicted by one of the characters who then triggered it in the hope of diverting it away...
Read MoreVIEWERS WITH A JOB TO DO: THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF NETFLIX’S MAKING A MURDERER by Tanya Horeck
Feb 28, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Documentary, Netflix, News, Reality TV, Streaming | 0
Released in its entirety on Netflix on December 18th, 2015, the 10-episode long crime documentary, Making a Murderer – directed by Columbia University film graduates Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos – quickly became the ‘must...
Read MoreTHE RISE OF THE SAGANAUTS by Sarah Niblock
Feb 13, 2016 | Conferences/events, Crime, News, Transnational TV | 0
My eyes lit up when I saw her – I’d dreamt of seeing her in the flesh since I first laid eyes...
Read MoreROADS NOT TAKEN by Richard Hewett
Cast your minds back, if you will, to the year 2010, when the BBC was poised to launch a brand new detective on our screens. Dark and tousle-haired, his deductive powers would prove a constant source of amazement to his more...
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