Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (26)

The shit just got real: Parody and National Film Culture in The Strike and Hot Fuzz (2016)
Journal Article
Archer. (2016). The shit just got real: Parody and National Film Culture in The Strike and Hot Fuzz. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 13(1), 42-60. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2016.0295

This article argues for the productive function of parody within British film-making, both as an aesthetic strategy for wider distribution, but also as an important approach to the depiction and construction of a national film culture. Going against... Read More about The shit just got real: Parody and National Film Culture in The Strike and Hot Fuzz.

A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing (2014)
Journal Article
Archer. (2014). A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing. Adaptation, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apu008

This essay will consider the adaptation of series one of the Danish television serial Forbrydelsen / The Killing (2007) into David Hewson’s novel The Killing (2012). Considering the television show through theoretical paradigms of contemporary long-f... Read More about A Novel Experience in Crime Narrative: Watching and Reading The Killing.