What Would Jack Bauer Do? Negotiating Trauma, Vengeance and Justice in the Cultural Forum of Post-9/11 TV Drama, from 24 to Battlestar Galactica and Person of Interest by Tobias Steiner

“…Discussing the concept of cultural trauma and its role in popular television dramas such as 24 (FOX 2001-10, 2014-), Battlestar Galactica (Syfy 2004-9), Rubicon (AMC 2010) and Person of Interest (CBS 2011-16), this paper sets out to identify three distinct clusters that are part of what Newcomb and Hirsch once termed a “cultural forum”—a discursive space in which questions of justice, revenge, terror, and trauma continue to be negotiated in significantly changing ways. …”
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Accumulation solaire : la théorie des systèmes-mondes de The Expanse by Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sean O’Brien

“…The Syfy television series The Expanse (2015-) transposes a form of combined and uneven development from Earth to the solar system, making the human reality of life lived in space a central concern. …”
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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). …”
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Les ordres du spectre : la science-fiction numérique et le présent corrigé by Rebekah Sheldon

“…This article examines the aesthetics of what Anthony Dunne calls “Hertzian space” or the electromagnetic flows that enable wireless communication devices through comparative attention to three contemporary transmedia universes: the BBC’s Sherlock, SyFy’s Alphas, and Fox’s Touch. I argue that each of these shows uses the emerging conventions of neuro-atypicality in order to make visible and render as story the data streams whose omnipresence cannot be experienced as such by the human sensorium without first becoming meaningful. …”
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