Edinburgh Napier University

‘An otherness that cannot be sublimated’: Shades of Frankenstein in Penny Dreadful and Black Mirror

Journal Article

Artt, S. (2018)

‘An otherness that cannot be sublimated’: Shades of Frankenstein in Penny Dreadful and Black Mirror. Science Fiction Film and Television, 11(2), 257-275. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2018.18

This article traces some of the legacies of the Frankenstein narrative as it appears in the television series Penny Dreadful and Black Mirror. Both series deploy Frankenstein ...

From the Coffin to the Rowan Tree

Presentation / Conference

Lam, L. (2018, June)

From the Coffin to the Rowan Tree. Paper presented at International Vampire Film and Arts Festival, Sighișoara, Romania

After the glut of YA novels featuring vampires after Twilight, vampires are currently back in the coffin and publishers are still largely avoiding novels that feature them. Pa...

'Femme Publique':The brothel sex worker as anti-Flaneuse in the television series Maison Close.

Book Chapter

Artt, S. (2018)

'Femme Publique':The brothel sex worker as anti-Flaneuse in the television series Maison Close. In M. Pietrzak-Franger, N. Pleßke, & E. Voigts (Eds.), Transforming Cities (91-106). Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter

The figure of the prostitute has long been associated with the city and although prostitution may take place anywhere, the connection between female prostitution and the city ...

Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017)

Journal Article

Keeble, A. (2017)

Interview with Tim Irwin, Director of We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) and Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (2017). Punk and Post Punk, 6(1), 157-162. https://doi.org/10.1386/punk.6.1.157_7

This interview was conducted over Skype on 26 March 2017. I contacted Tim Irwin for an interview with two main goals in mind. First, I was hoping for insight into his new film...

Introduction - Screening Women’s Imprisonment: Agency and Exploitation in Orange is the New Black.

Journal Article

Artt, S., & Schwan, A. (2016)

Introduction - Screening Women’s Imprisonment: Agency and Exploitation in Orange is the New Black. Television and New Media, 16(5), 1-6

Introduction to the special edition of Television & New Media.

Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black

Journal Article

Schwan, A. (2016)

Postfeminism Meets the Women in Prison Genre: Privilege and Spectatorship in Orange Is the New Black. Television and New Media, 17(6), 473-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476416647497

This article argues that Netflix’s original series Orange is the New Black (2013-), based on Piper Kerman’s memoir (2010), uses postfeminist strategies to covertly promote pri...

'Not Enough of Him' Technology and Melancholia in 'Be Right Back'.

Journal Article

Artt, S. (2015)

'Not Enough of Him' Technology and Melancholia in 'Be Right Back'. In media res: a media commons project,

Vienna to Beijing: Xu Jinglei's Letter From An Unknown Woman and the Symbolic Simulation of Europe.

Book Chapter

Artt, S. (2014)

Vienna to Beijing: Xu Jinglei's Letter From An Unknown Woman and the Symbolic Simulation of Europe. In M. Stewart (Ed.), Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television (July 2014) (171-186). Palgrave

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Silence, Melancholia and Science Fiction: Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin.

Presentation / Conference

Artt, S. (2014, August)

Silence, Melancholia and Science Fiction: Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin. Paper presented at Becoming Scotland, Queen Margaret University

In 'On the Melancholic Imaginary' Julia Kristeva notes that epochs of crisis are especially prone to black humour and melancholy: "In times of crisis... melancholy imposes its...

Being Inside Her Silence: silence and performance in Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar.

Journal Article

Artt, S. (2013)

Being Inside Her Silence: silence and performance in Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar. Scope an on-line journal of film studies,