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Netflix: You’re Halfway There!
As Mareike Jenner argues in Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television, binge-watching is not merely a viewer habit but a publishing model. Netflix has long marketed self-scheduling as freedom while quietly structuring it through interface design, autoplay, “skip intro,” and algorithmic recommendation. The schedule was never abolished – it was internalized. The half-season release doesn’t…
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Netflix and House of Cards as a Game Changer.
Written by Ruchir Dey Student no – 33791880 Netflix’s emergence into the streaming space was a game changer to the norms and rules for audiences and how they viewed television shows. Netflix as a company was better than most when it came to adapting newer technologies in the early 2010’s. The internet business model they…
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Post-Cinema and Game Logic in Source Code (2011)
Watching Source Code (2011), what stood out most was how the film feels less like a traditional narrative and more like a repeated game scenario. The eight-minute loop structure resembles a puzzle or video game level, where each restart offers new strategies and perspectives. Rather than progressing smoothly through a linear storyline, the film emphasises repetition, urgency, and experimentation,…
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Post-Continuity on a loop: Source Code
Source Code, while watching the film, we can see the narrative repeats for the same eight minutes. The film feels less smooth, but producing a high-pressure, clipped experience where attention keeps restarting. It looks like more closer to refreshing a feed than settling into a stable scene to the audience. This concept well connected to…
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Post-Cinema as Attention Design: Editing, Continuity, and Ways of Watching
In the age of ‘Post-Cinema,’ the screen is no longer a window into a story; it’s a feedback loop. Whether it’s the constant interruptions of a choose-your-own-adventure game or the relentless first-person chaos of a digital-action flick, modern media has moved beyond simple storytelling. It is now designing how we watch, not just what we…
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Nonlinear Television, Binge-Watching, and Emily in Paris
by Mina Kang (33847161) In Theorizing the Nonlinear Distinction of Internet-Distributed Television (2017), Amanda Lotz argues that platforms like Netflix represent a fundamental shift in how television is produced, distributed, and experienced. Internet-distributed television is defined not by schedules and flows, but by nonlinearity the removal of time-specific viewing and the replacement of linear scheduling…
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When Time Falls Apart, So Do My Feelings: Rethinking Pulp Fiction
By Alice Yin （33910730） The first time I watched Pulp Fiction, I thought it was just cool. The dialogue was sharp, the characters were unforgettable, and the style was striking. But after learning about post-cinematic ideas and watching it again, I realized that what makes the film special is not just the story itself, but…
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Binge-watching is not merely reactive; it is frequently pre-meditated.
By Parul Ohri When assignments for the week include watching pop culture hits like Stranger Things, you do not procrastinate at all. The ‘essential viewing’ was S1Ep1, but I ended up binge watching the entire season, and then one more. I stopped just a few episodes into Season 3, when the loop of the same…
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Weightless Presence: Post-Continuity and the Conquest of Space
The transition from filmic to post-cinematic regimes has effectively surpassed the traditional boundaries of representation. As Steven Shaviro (2011) argues, we have entered a cultural-technological landscape defined by Post-Continuity. In this space, the screen no longer functions as a window, but as a hallucinatory field where digital simulation and “chaos cinema” generate what I perceive…
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Will Netflix Replace to the Television and Film Industry?
By: Yua Shimada Jenner claimed in “Netflix and the Reinvention of Television” that, by creating Netflix Originals and releasing them worldwide on the same date, Netflix has become a transnational broadcaster. Also, by releasing all episodes at once, it changed how we watch TV and even redefined what television means. Media content separated from the…
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