Kilshaw, Susie; Coyer, Caroline; (2025) “More time, more pain, more blood”: Creating accurate and diverse accounts of miscarriage in British TV and film. Feminist Media Studies 10.1080/14680777.2025.2578812. (In press).

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Media plays a critical role in reflecting and shaping cultural values, norms and public understandings. Scholars have long noted that mass media not only reflects societal attitudes but also serves an educational function by informing viewers about topics such as health. This paper discusses how miscarriage is portrayed in British scripted TV and film and how academic research might influence this by documenting a collaborative project between an anthropologist and Women in Film and TV, a membership organization for women across various media professions. The project aimed to provide screenwriters with information to create more accurate and diverse accounts through a writer’s workshop. Prompted by ethnographic research projects focusing on miscarriage, the project involved conducting archival research into the portrayal of miscarriage in American, Canadian and British television and film. From this analysis, a video reel was curated highlighting typical representations of miscarriage. Opening the workshop, the reel was followed by presentations by two social scientists who work on miscarriage. The event included a panel discussion with the academics and National Health Service clinicians, including a consultant gynaecologist and two specialist early pregnancy nurse sonographers. Key themes, audience responses and implications for future research projects are explored.

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