Netflix Poland — Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Sylwia Szostak / SWPS University
Sylwia Szostak explores the politics of Netflix for Poland’s Screenwriters.
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Netflix Poland — Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Over*Flow: Classifying Dahmer: Protecting Netflix’s Homonormative Canon
Dan Vena / Queen’s University & Sarah Woodstock / University of Toronto
Dan Vena and Sarah Woodstock argue that Netflix’s removal of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story from its LGBTQ TV category discards “unacceptable” queer history and protects the homonormativity of Netflix’s LGBTQ library.
Read moreWanting a Latina Sophie: Bridgerton and the Desire for Problematic Representation
NIna Linhales Barker / University of Texas at Austin
Nina Linhales Barker discusses the complications of Latina fans wanting to see themselves represented in Netflix’s Bridgerton.
Read moreThe Branded Video Essay: How Streaming Services Use Media Criticism as Promotion
Tara Coughlin / University of Texas at Austin
Tara Coughlin examines the usefulness of the creative labor of video essayists to streaming services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Read moreStill Watching Netflix and the Cross-Platform Ecosystem of Streaming Media
Katie Hoovestol / University of Texas at Austin
Katie Hoovestol examines Netflix’s branded YouTube account Still Watching Netflix as an extension of Netflix’s cross-platform ecosystem.
Read moreLogged in to You: Negotiating Algorithmic Address in Streaming Women’s Television
Cara Dickason / Northwestern University
Cara Dickason explores the relationship between women’s television and streaming services through the Netflix series, You.
Read moreSelenidad 2.0: Dispatches from the Digital Sphere
María Elena Cepeda / Williams College
María Elena Cepeda discusses how Selena Quintanilla’s legacy is constructed in WBUR Boston/Futuro Studios’ Anything for Selena podcast and Netflix’s Selena: The Series.
Read moreCrossing the Sonic Color Line: TV Voiceover Narration in Never Have I Ever
Crystal Camargo / Northwestern University
Crystal Camargo grapples with how the cultural specificity of Mindy Kaling’s Netflix comedy Never Have I Ever is diluted by the sonic whiteness of the show’s narrator, John McEnroe.
Read moreRap Is Not a Luxury in The Forty-Year-Old Version
Christina N. Baker / University of California, Merced
Christina N. Baker incorporates thinking on poetry, hip hop, and creativity to consider Black artistry in Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old-Version.
Read moreTelevising Deportation: Hierarchies of Suffering in Immigration Nation
Crystal Camargo / Northwestern University
Crystal Camargo interrogates the politics of representation of undocumented immigrants and the privileging of moral complexity for ICE agents in Netflix’s docuseries Immigration Nation.
Read moreStreaming Egypt: Netflix & the Transnational Flow of Egyptian Media
Hazem Fahmy / University of Texas at Austin
Hazem Fahmy analyzes Netflix’s recent acquisition of Egyptian films, television series, and plays.
Read more“It Could Be About Anything”: Middleditch & Schwartz and the Viability of Televised Improv Comedy
Alex Brannan / University of Texas at Austin
Alex Brannan discusses the potential for mainstream long-form improv, using the Netflix comedy special Middleditch & Schwartz as a case study.
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