Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing
eBook - ePub

Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing

Family Watch Together TV

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing

Family Watch Together TV

About this book

Focusing on Netflix's child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle of dark science fiction, horror, and fantasy television under Netflix's "Family Watch Together TV" tag.

Using a ground-breaking mix of methods including audience research, interface, and textual analysis, the book demonstrates how Netflix is producing dark family telefantasy content that is both reshaping child and family-friendly TV genres and challenging earlier broadcast TV models around child-appropriate family viewing. It illuminates how Netflix encourages family audiences to "watch together" through intergenerational dynamics that work on and offscreen. The chapters in this book explore how this "Netflixication" of family television developed across landmark examples including Stranger Things, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, and even Squid Game. The book outlines how Netflix is consolidating a new dark family terrain in the streaming sector, which is unsettling older concepts of family viewing, leading to considerable audience and critical confusion around target audiences and viewer expectations.

This book will be of particular interest to upper-level undergraduates, graduates, and scholars in the fields of television studies, screen genre studies, childhood studies, and cultural studies.

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Yes, you can access Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing by Djoymi Baker,Jessica Balanzategui,Diana Sandars in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Media Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032121895
eBook ISBN
9781000900064
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. 1 Family Viewing in the Age of Netflix
  8. 2 The Intergenerational Dynamic and “Family Watch Together TV” on Netflix: Stranger Things as Dark Family Telefantasy Prototype
  9. 3 The New “Family Watch Together TV”: A Series of Unfortunate Events
  10. 4 Affective Contagion: Lost in Space's Old Fans and Young Viewers
  11. 5 The Haunted Nostalgia of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
  12. 6 Raising Dion: Paratexts, Genre Creep, and the Horror Next Door
  13. 7 New Frontiers in Family Viewing from Stranger Things to Squid Game
  14. References
  15. Index