Offering first impressions of Narcos, Kristina Busse discusses its layered framing, use of original footage, and language and accent.
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Tags: history, language, Narcos, Netflix
Posted in Current Events, TV | Comments Off on Magical Realism and Fictional Verisimilitude in Medellín
Sam Ward looks under the hood of the EU’s “digital single market” initiative and finds wrenches in the machinery—geo-blocking, national-cultural specificity and more.
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Tags: digital distribution, Digital Single Market, European Union, iPlayer, Netflix, Online Television, streaming television, television, transnational
Posted in Columns, From Nottingham and Beyond | Comments Off on Streaming Across Borders: The Digital Single Market, Web-Based Television and the “Global” Viewer
Mark Lashley discusses "Fuller House" and the current trend of resurrected television nostalgia, and how the notion of television as an ephemeral or disposable media form is diminishing.
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Tags: ABC, Arrested Development, Brady Bunch, cultural memory, Full House, Fuller House, Mad Men, Netflix, nostalgia, reboot, reruns, television, The Muppets, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Wet Hot American Summer
Posted in Perspectives, TV | Comments Off on Moving Into a Fuller House: Television Reboots, Nostalgia, and Time
How far are Marvel Studios’ film and television franchises visually coded for homogeneity? How insistently, that is to say, is brand identity maintained at the levels of design, cinematography, editing and post-production processing?
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Tags: Aesthetics, Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Arrow, color, comics, Daredevil, Dark Knight Trilogy, DC Comics, Marvel, Marvel Comics, media aesthetics, Netflix, paratexts, The Flash, The Wire
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Marvel’s Daredevil launched April 10 on Netflix, marking a new milestone for Netflix’s original content strategy and the expansion of Marvel Television into the streaming space.
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Tags: comics, Daredevil, franchise, Marvel, marvel films, Netflix
Posted in Perspectives, TV | Comments Off on Devilish Partners: Daredevil, Netflix, and Exclusive Original Programming
There is a difference between the Canadian edition of Netlix and the Canadians who watch Netflix. What does that mean for the future of the service in Canada?
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Tags: Amazon Prime, canada, CraveTV, CRTC, Netflix, Shomi, streaming media
Posted in Perspectives, Technology | Comments Off on What the Canadian Netflix Says About Canadians (and Netflix)
Back from the break, here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Bruce Springsteen, CBS, Charter, China, digital music, John Malone, Liberty Media, Netflix, PTC, SiriusXM, stock, Supreme Court, Time Warner Cable, WWE, WWE Network
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Dec 30 – Jan 12
Chuck Tryon discusses Jeff Ulin's latest book on media distribution, focusing on temporal and spatial considerations in a global, digital marketplace.
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Tags: Amazon, Blockbuster, China, digital distribution, digital media, distribution, Global Media, industry, intellectual property, jeff ulin, Netflix, svod, tvod, video
Posted in Film, Industry, Technology, TV | Comments Off on Rethinking Media Distribution
Here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently
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Tags: Blockbuster, Charter, Deadline, FCC, Marvel, Netflix, RAI, Time Warner Cable, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 28 – Nov 10
The common thread at the Making Television in the 21st Century Conference was the pursuit to provide updated models and methods to make sense of the evolving medium.
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Tags: Aarhus University, Amazon, Borgen, Brand World, Craft World, Danish Drama, Danish Television, European Television, John Caldwell, Making Television in the 21st Century, Netflix, Spec World, The Bridge, The Killing
Posted in Perspectives, Report From... | Comments Off on Making Television in the 21st Century Conference Report
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Comcast, FCC, FilmOn X, HBO, isoHunt, Mattel, Netflix, piracy, popcorn, SiriusXM, Sony Music, Twitter
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Industry, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? Oct 14 – Oct 27
The success of Netflix's original series Orange is the New Black says something about our culture’s readiness for complex, sexually diverse female characters.
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Tags: gender, industry, Netflix, Orange is the New Black, race/ethnicity, sexuality, television, transgender
Posted in TV | 3 Comments »
Netflix's nominations have been signaled as historical for online television, but they were earned through efforts to erase that distinction.
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Tags: 2013, Arrested Development, Emmys, House of Cards, Netflix, Nominations, Online Television, TV, Webseries
Posted in Award Winning | 4 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: caa, Disney, Dreamworks, e3, Greece, interns, kanye west, Licensing, Microsoft, Netflix, PlayStation, Sony, wme, Xbox
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? June 10 – June 23
Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Amazon, box office, digital media, Game of Thrones, Hollywood, Hulu, internet, Netflix, television
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? May 26 – June 9