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Caliban: French Journal of English Studies
ISSN 2425-6250 · Presses Universitaires du Midi · 382 artikel di indeks
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George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022): An Action Movie Take on A.S. Byatt’s Metatextual Mediations in “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” (1994)
This article examines George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) as a cinematic adaptation of A.S. Byatt’s metatextual novella “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” (1994), exploring the transformative effects of medium on narrative, character, and theme. It analyses four key points: the…
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Making Friends the British Way: Coupling (BBC, 2000-2004) and the Transatlantic Divide in Sitcom Humour
This article examines the British sitcom Coupling (BBC, 2000-2004) as a case study in transatlantic comedic differences, particularly in relation to the American sitcom Friends (NBC, 1994-2004). While superficially similar, Coupling employs a distinctly British comedic style, characterized by…
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Ambiguïtés et reniements : figures oubliées de la paternité protéiforme dans Le Marchand de Venise
Early Modern England is traditionally viewed as a patriarchal society: Hélène Cixous (Sorties, 1975) even describes it as phallogo-centric. Thus, Shakespearean studies regularly focus on fathers, as recently seen with Fred Tromly (2010) and Tom MacFaul (2012). It is important, however, to look…
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The Paradox of Distinction: British Television Series in their Golden Age
Many successful British TV series of the 1960s “Golden Age” imitated US aesthetics and production methods, especially filmed television made for the Independent Television network. Distinctively British stylishness and quality made British TV exports attractive to US TV networks, but this…
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“How many countries are in this country?”: Representing Britishness in Apple TV +’s Ted Lasso (2020-2023)
Ted Lasso is a series rooted in Anglophone culture clash: Jason Sudeikis originated the titular character as the feckless protagonist of a series of ads, where an American football coach finds himself the new coach for an English football/soccer club. Ted Lasso’s focus on its fish-out-of-water hero…
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British multiculturalism in The Buddha of Suburbia and This Town
This case study purports to compare the two British miniseries The Buddha of Suburbia (BBC2, 1993) and This Town (BBC2, 2024) to show how they feature a conception of Britishness as inherently relational, foregrounding the ideal of an integrative multiculturalism rather than an assimilative or…
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“Uncoupling the national from the nationalistic” in Don't Forget the Driver (BBC 2019)
First broadcast on BBC Two in April and May 2019, the six-part mini-series Don’t Forget the Driver created by playwright Tim Crouch and actor Toby Jones was hailed by London-based magazine The Jackal, “the Brexit show we need right now.” Although the original idea for the show dated back to 2015…
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National Treasure (Marc Munden, 2016)—A Study in Ambiguity
This paper examines National Treasure (Channel 4, 2016), a four-part mini-series directed by Marc Munden, as a fictionalized reflection on the cultural and emotional aftermath of Operation Yewtree, the 2012 UK police investigation into sexual abuse allegations involving high-profile media figures…
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Spirit of the archive: the enduring mystery of the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas
While the future of BBC Four is uncertain, it has played a significant role in reviving interest in vintage British television drama. As custodian of the BBC archive, not only has it screened repeats of the original episodes of A Ghost Story for Christmas (BBC1 1971-1978) but also revived the…
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The Artful ‘Mash-up’, Seriality and British Intermediality in Dickensian (BBC, 2015-2016): Generic, Aesthetic and Mediatic Hybridity
This article seeks to analyse the risky and innovative concept at work in the BBC series Dickensian (2015-2016). Though Dickens is a favourite for TV adaptations, Tony Jordan’s project defies the conventions of the BBC tradition of the classic serial as he selects famous characters from various…
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Exploitation and Apocalypse: Imagined Futures of Space Colonization
As private ventures into near-Earth orbit increase in frequency and take a more active role in facilitating scientific research, eyes turn to the Moon and Mars as possible destinations for humanity to establish a permanent presence. While these visions of a spacefaring humanity capture public…
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Sentimental Journeys: Female Astronauts and Gendered (Im)mobilities on the ‘Final Frontier’ in Twenty-First-Century Hollywood
This article examines the cultural function of the female astronaut in contemporary Hollywood by discussing two exemplary case studies, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Interstellar (2014) and the lesser-known Netflix series AWAY (2020). It combines a mobility studies and affect studies approach…
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The Necessity of Nepantla: Towards a Praxis of Decolonial Disruption in Outer Space
This article attempts a theoretical disruption of the coloniality of outer space by suggesting that Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “Nepantla” can be used to rethink and open up non-extractivist ways of thinking about and being in the universe.