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Television in the Global Age

The Disappearance (2015), France

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Recall questions on the broadcast details, the event that begins it, the setting and the length of the series, how a missing-person premise differs from a murder, the technique that sustains uncertainty, the representation of the family and of teenage girls, and why French drama reaches British audiences on a specialist channel.

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Identify the French crime drama set for study and give its broadcast details.

Key term

What narrative technique keeps the audience uncertain about who is responsible?

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How does a missing-person premise differ from a murder premise in its effect on the audience?

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  1. 1

    Identify the French crime drama set for study and give its broadcast details.

    Model answer

    The Disappearance, Series 1 Episode 1 (2015), first broadcast on France 2 and shown in the UK by BBC Four.

  2. 2

    What event begins the narrative?

    Model answer

    A teenage girl vanishes after a night out at a summer music festival, and her family's search for her becomes a police investigation.

  3. 3

    Where is the series set and how is the location used?

    Model answer

    It is set in Lyon, and the city's streets, river and suburbs are used to establish a specific French sense of place and to show the ordinary environment in which the disappearance happens.

  4. 4

    How many episodes make up the series?

    Model answer

    Eight.

  5. 5

    How does the series differ in focus from a conventional police procedural?

    Model answer

    It gives at least as much attention to the family's relationships and the personal damage of the disappearance as to the mechanics of the investigation.

  6. 6

    What narrative technique keeps the audience uncertain about who is responsible?

    Model answer

    The plot supplies a succession of twists in which family members, friends and acquaintances are each given plausible secrets, so suspicion keeps moving rather than settling on one person.

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