Margaux Collin

Negotiating the Mainstreaming of a Long-Silenced Testimony in John Ridley’s 12 Years a Slave

This paper examines the adaptation of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave through the lens of John Ridley’s screenplay, arguing that the process of mainstreaming a marginalized narrative is carefully negotiated at the level of writing. Rather than treating the screenplay as a...

Introduction: From Margins to Mainstream: Narrativizing Power on Screen

This issue is the outcome of a one-day conference organized by the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Langues et la Pensée at Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne on 13 June 2025. The conference revolved around a central concern in media studies and the history of re...