Slow Television, Vivid Crime: Steven Zaillian's Ripley and the Aesthetics of Duration by Sérgio Dias Branco
Abstract
Steven Zaillian's Ripley (2024), available on Netflix, arrives with the familiar signals of prestige adaptation: a canonical literary source (Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley ), European locations, meticulous production design, and a controlled tonal palette. Yet one of its most distinctive features is not narrative content but tempo.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Cinema History and Criticism
Shakespeare
Adaptation
and Literary Criticism
Crime and Detective Fiction Studies
Publication details
- Publication date
- 6 February 2026