Grace and Frankie Open the Door: Dramedy, Netflix, and Small Screen Lily Tomlin
Kelly Kessler / DePaul University
Kelly Kessler considers Lily Tomlin’s unique televisual history.
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Grace and Frankie Open the Door: Dramedy, Netflix, and Small Screen Lily Tomlin
Stream Heat: Netflix, Broadway Theatre, and Industrial Convergence
Peter C. Kunze / Eckerd College
Peter C. Kunze examines Netflix’s budding interest in Broadway theatre, which continues film and television’s longstanding investment in theatrical entertainment.
Read moreNo More Room for You: Reading Between the Lines of Netflix’s Claims of Inclusivity
Jacinta Yanders / The Ohio State University
Jacinta Yanders questions Netflix’s decision to cancel One Day at a Time amidst their own visible campaigns for inclusivity and representation on-screen.
Read moreDoing Nothing: The Pleasure and Power of Idle Media
Alison Harvey / University of Leicester
Alison Harvey compares the appeal of slow and mundane Terrace House to the idle video game genre. She explores audiences’ move away from media’s demands of hyper-competitivity and self-actualization and suggests mainstream gaming increasingly includes pockets of idleness in its design.
Read more“The Game on Top of the Game”: Navigating Race, Media, and the Business of Basketball in High Flying Bird
Courtney M. Cox / University of Southern California
Courtney M. Cox discusses the opportunities and limitations of recent shifts in power relations in professional basketball and the sports media landscape by examining Steven Soderbergh’s Netflix film High Flying Bird.
Read moreShowtime’s The Chi and the Surge in Black-Cast TV Dramas
Tim Havens / University of Iowa
Tim Havens explores the surge in high-quality black-cast dramas offered by subscription television services. By comparing contemporary series such as Showtime’s The Chi with African American television of the past, Havens asserts the industry is beginning to splinter the African American audience along divisions of taste cultures.
Read moreAlgorithmic Advertising and the Perils of Personalisation
JP Kelly / Royal Holloway College, University of London
JP Kelly takes a look at the thumbnails of Netflix, how they are decided, personalized, and what effect that can have for viewers.
Read moreThe Friction of Digital Markets
Ramon Lobato / RMIT University
Ramon Lobato explores the challenges in global media distribution by considering Netflix’s efforts to adapt to local conditions, regulations, and audience expectations.
Read moreThe Algorithmic Audience and African American Media Cultures
Tim Havens / University of Iowa
Tim Havens considers Netflix as a case study to develop a typology for studying the role of algorithmic audience analysis in commercial African American streaming culture.
Read moreAn LGBTQ Netflix: Productive? Restricting? Lasting? Chelsea McCracken / Beloit College
Chelsea McCracken considers Revry – the LGBT Netflix – alongside historical responses and successes of LGBTQ production companies, distribution platforms, and film festivals.
Read moreA Rose is A 장미 is A 장미 꽃: Translating Television Across Streaming Services Amanda Halprin / University of Texas at Austin
Amanda Halprin examines the different translation and subtitling processes utilized by Netflix, DramaFever, and Viki in bringing global, foreign language digital content to U.S. audiences.
Read moreTV Finales: On-Demand Endings
Casey McCormick / McGill University
Casey McCormick examines what she calls “Netflix poetics” to explore how the proliferation of video-on-demand services such as Netflix is changing the way we watch and experience TV finales.
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