Religious Dramas in Italy. Dramaturgical Models, Thematization and Effectiveness of Biographical Miniseries by Armando Fumagalli

“…In this essay I will deal with the topic of religious miniseries for Television, that will be seen especially from the point of view of their dramatic structure. …”
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Re-representing “The Great American Institution that Never Gets Mentioned on the Fourth of July” by Cristelle Maury

“…This article relies on theories of adaptation to analyze Todd Haynes’s 2011 miniseries Mildred Pierce, in the light of its source novel written by James Cain in 1941 and of Curtiz’s 1945 film noir. …”
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The Cutting Edge of Comics: Destructive Technologies in Morrison and Quitely’s We3 by Isabelle Licari-Guillaume

“…In We3, a 2004-5 miniseries published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely dramatize the motif of tearing within a narrative that features extreme violence and the destruction of bodies. …”
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Génocide, révisionnisme, négationnisme : la réception contrastée de la série Black Earth Rising by Sylvie Allouche

“…Black Earth Rising (Rwanda, la couleur du sang in French) is a 2018 miniseries by Hugo Blick co-produced by the BBC and Netflix whose main character, Kate Ashby, is initially presented as a survivor of the Tutsi genocide which happened in Rwanda in 1994. …”
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Deconstructive Analysis of Netflix Series Hollywood by Ezgi Çakır, Emir Orhan Kılıç

“…Deconstruction, put forward by Jacques Derrida, is a theory that combines literature and philosophy to reveal the structural hegemonies, hierarchies in the language, and to find alterations and instabilities in the language called “logos”. The Netflix miniseries Hollywood (2020) is created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan. …”
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Le temps des morts-vivants : formes sérielles et potentiel critique des séries télévisées zombies by Clémentine Hougue

“….), based on the eponymous comic book, as well as its two spin-offs (Fear The Walking Dead, AMC, 2015-2021 and The Walking Dead : World Beyond, AMC, 2020), but also Z Nation (Syfy, 2014-2018) and its spin-off Black Summer (Netflix, 2019-2021), and the British miniseries Dead Set (E4, 2008). If George Romero brought zombies into the modern era, it is because he gave them a deeply political dimension, reflecting the fragile areas of contemporary Western civilization. …”
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From the Small Screen to the Big Screen: The Super8's Distribution of Sandokan TV series by Nicole Braida

“…The film is Sandokan, an Italian miniseries from 1976 directed by Sergio Sollima and starring the Indian actor Kabir Bedi as the exotic protagonist of Salgari’s famous adventure. …”
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