Assessments of the truthfulness or otherwise documentaries are best understood as genre conventions which vary historically. Genre shared between audiences, filmmakers and institutions. Beliefs about acceptable use fictional techniques in documentary storytelling, particularly television, subject to occasional public controversies. The move from photographic digital processes underlay one such ...

This article discusses the challenges British Muslim writers and publishers face in a largely secular literary marketplace society marked by Islamophobia. It explores these authors’ publication experiences, analysing examples from industry diversity initiatives conducting interviews with authors. Arguing that distorted representations strip Muslims of their complex humanity, while more nuanced ...

Récit court sur un segment de vie d’un SDF qui habite chez nombreux parents et a failli se faire employer comme aide alors qu’il besoin d’aide lui-même. Le genre comico-tragique recouvre des éléments réalistes, montrant que le réel est « plus étrange la fiction », selon les mots l’auteur.

Appropriation is a common practice in art and literature; electronic literature in particular lends itself readily to appropriation and collaboration, due to its multimodal and born-digital nature. This paper presents practice-based research examining the effects of digital appropriation on two works of digital fiction (a hyperfiction and an interactive fiction), demonstrating how it alters the...

RTP-Açores television fictionAn essay on «Açorianidade» While there has been television fiction in Portugal for over 30 years, this genre has achieved special relevance in the last 10 years due to the efforts of TVI, a Portuguese private channel. The television market in Portugal has been forced to adapt all its programming because of TVI’s pointed strategy to produce scripts in Portuguese and ...