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Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing: Family Watch Together TV

Netflix, Dark Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing: Family Watch Together TV

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Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032121882
ISBN13: 9781032121888
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2024
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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