Serial practice often involves a reception that focuses on suspense. But Top of the Lake particularises its treatment of suspense by means of slowdowns in the narrative, constituting a brake on the…
This presentation focuses on the making of French mini-series. Why create a mini-series rather than a series or a feature film? Is it the subject that dictates the format? Or is it…
The Third Day is a mini-series consisting of six episodes. A seventh episode, Autumn, is at the junction between the two parts. It was filmed live on 3 October 2020 during a…
From the very first sequence of Normal People, the dynamic of linking and unlinking between Marianne and Connell, which constitutes the narrative substance of the series, structures the mise-en-scène: in a corridor…
With We Own This City (2022), David Simon returns to his favourite city, Baltimore. Based on Justin Fenton’s barely fictionalised investigation, he offers a mini-series that is as dry in its narrative…
The mini-series follows the caregivers at Memorial Hospital (New Orleans) during and after Hurricane Katrina. The mini-series borrows from disaster films and long-running medical series. Ethically, the miniseries deploys a levelling power…
This talk proposes an exploration of the corpus of mini-series “by” Nicole Kidman, i.e. that she produces and/or interprets: Big Little Lies (2017-2019), The Undoing (2020), Nine Perfect Strangers (2021)… The aim…
In this paper, we analyze the mode of production and broadcasting of the mini-series adapted from novels and produced by the production companies of actress and producer Reese Witherspoon, Pacific Standard and…
This paper examines true crime documentary mini-series Making a Murderer and The Staircase within the context of their snowball transmedia structure. While their success partly rests upon the spreadable features of streaming…
“Watching Watchmen” (HBO, 2019) intends to analyze how Damon Lindelof’s limited TV series could be considered as an example of successful transmediadaptation, acting as a bridge to a beloved comic book while…