A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
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 moreNina Linhales Barker discusses the complications of Latina fans wanting to see themselves represented in Netflix’s Bridgerton.
Read moreTara Coughlin examines the usefulness of the creative labor of video essayists to streaming services such as Amazon Prime and Netflix.
Read moreKatie Hoovestol examines Netflix’s branded YouTube account Still Watching Netflix as an extension of Netflix’s cross-platform ecosystem.
Read moreCara Dickason explores the relationship between women’s television and streaming services through the Netflix series, You.
Read moreMaría 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 moreCrystal 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 moreChristina N. Baker incorporates thinking on poetry, hip hop, and creativity to consider Black artistry in Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old-Version.
Read moreCrystal 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 moreHazem Fahmy analyzes Netflix’s recent acquisition of Egyptian films, television series, and plays.
Read moreAlex Brannan discusses the potential for mainstream long-form improv, using the Netflix comedy special Middleditch & Schwartz as a case study.
Read moreRyan Stoldt argues interactive television provides a new way for television industries to gather and commoditize audience data.
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