Le film de tournage shakespearien : fiction documentarisée ou documentaire fictionnalisé ? by Sarah Hatchuel

“…After reflecting upon the concepts of “documentary” and “fiction”, and upon the crucial role of the audience in the creation of a “reading contract”, the essay will focus on a specific “making of”—A Little Touch of Harry: The Making of Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V. This “making of” blurs the boundary between fiction and nonfiction by offering a “documentarizing” reading of excerpts from the fiction film and a “fictionalizing” reading of the documentary. …”
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A Gothic heterotopia: four Anglophone responses to Venice by John Thieme

“…It pursues this line of thinking in relation to four Anglophone representations of Venice: the recent film A Haunting in Venice (2023), directed by Kenneth Branagh and scripted by Michael Green, which is very loosely adapted from Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party (1969), and which subjects the whodunnit genre to a Gothic makeover, Daphne du Maurier’s short story ‘Don’t Look Now’ (1971) and Nicolas Roeg’s film adaptation (1973) of it, in which the Gothic particularly manifests itself in the form of psychic precognition, and Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019), in which an ostensibly realistic novel is infiltrated by recurrent paranormal elements, several of which are occasioned by the ‘unnaturalness’ of climate change. …”
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