Netflix and the Re-invention of Television

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SVOD Global Expansion in Cross-National Comparative Perspective: Netflix in Israel and Spain

“…By using the perspective of cross-national comparative research to explore collaborations between Netflix and pay-television services, this analysis complicates the scholarly understandings of SVOD global expansion by drawing attention to the significance of national multichannel providers. In contrast to existing scholarship that understands localization at the macro-levels of infrastructure and regulation and the micro-levels of content, language, and audience taste (Jenner 2018;Lobato 2019), the histories of Netflix in Israel and Spain reveal that internationalization also operates at a meso-level where collaborations with national pay-television providers facilitate access to national audiences. In light of the significant differences between the Spanish and Israeli pay-television markets, Netflix's pattern of engagement with multichannel providers highlights the value of understanding SVOD global expansion as a coherent industrial process that produces distinct, context-dependent outcomes.…”

Ficciones televisivas argentinas en los festivales internacionales de cine

“…Como señalamos al comienzo, la ficción televisiva serial constituye un nuevo referente cultural que emerge hacia el 2010 gracias a los avances tecno-lógicos, "unidos al interés por sofisticar los relatos audiovisuales mediante la ambición temática y un nuevo tipo de producción que imita la cinematográfica, al que algunos autores se refieren como calidad o televisión cinemática" (Pousa, 2018, p.19). Existen numerosos debates en torno a la calidad televisiva que suscita la narrativa seriada (Jenner, 2018;Bourdaa, 2011;Thompson, 2003). Las ficciones abordadas en este trabajo responden a varios de los criterios de los estudios académicos que reflexionan acerca de la misma.…”

Serialidade: continuidade e ruptura no ambiente midiático e cultural contemporâneo

“…Os distribuidores de conteúdo se apressaram em adotar essa tendência, liberando todos os episódios de determinada temporada de uma só vez (estratégia de entrega pioneira na Netflix e logo imitada por outras redes e portais). Refiro-me aqui ao padrão de assistência compactada (Kelly, 2017, p. 62) que é comumente rotulado como assistência em maratona (binge-watching) e, nos últimos anos, tem sido objeto de um conjunto considerável de literatura (entre outros, Barker & Wiatrowski, 2017;Brunsdon, 2010;Jenner, 2015Jenner, , 2018McDonald & Smith-Rowsey, 2016;Mikos, 2016;Perks, 2014;Tryon, 2015;Warhol, 2014). A esse respeito, gostaria de salientar que não compartilho uma opinião crítica e patológica da maratona televisiva nem aceito as alegações da Netflix de que isso se tornou o novo normal.…”