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‘Trans TV’: New Platforms, New Narratives
The evolution of internet-distributed television has opened new avenues for representation, particularly for trans and gender-diverse identities. Shows like Sense8, Transparent, Pose, and Euphoria highlight the possibilities for storytelling on platforms that break free from the constraints of traditional network television. Beyond representation, these series reflect what some critics describe as a “transing” of television…
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Netflix and the Streaming Revolution: Binge-Viewing and Representation
The rise of internet-distributed television has reshaped how we produce and consume media, with Netflix standing as a prime example of this transformation. By breaking away from the constraints of traditional network television, Netflix has introduced not just new modes of viewing but also expanded opportunities for diverse representation. A key innovation lies in Netflix’s…
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Mukbang phenomenon and Creator Labour
Mukbangs are videos where creators film themselves eating large quantities of food. Originating in South Korea in the late 2000s, the term “mukbang” combines “muk-ja” (to eat) and “bang-song” (broadcast). Initially popularised on live-streaming platforms like AfreecaTV, mukbang’s allowed broadcasters to engage viewers by sharing meals in real time. Today, the ‘mukbang’ concept has spread…
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Understanding Post-Cinematic Affect: New Aesthetics, New Feelings
Steven Shaviro’s concept of post-cinematic affect highlights how advances in audiovisual technologies have not only revolutionized cinematic techniques but also reshaped our ways of feeling and experiencing media. This shift transcends rapid, non-linear editing or the integration of digital fabrication with live-action photography—it signifies a deeper change in sensibilities and subjectivities. Post-cinematic affect represents a…
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Avatar: Post-Continuity and Visual Innovation
As a film with post-continuity characteristics, Avatar’s cinematic style has created a new audiovisual language and perceptual experience through digital technology. “The core of post-continuity cinema lies in the importance of instant effects outweighs traditional narrative logic and temporal continuity, and instead focuses on providing continuous sensory shock” (Denson and Leyda, 2016, p. 51). This…
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Netflix Original Series as Transgression TV in Japan: The Naked Director (2019-2021) and Sanctuary (2023-)
The concept of Trans TV is based on an analysis of the industry, which is becoming increasingly multi-channeled in terms of production, distribution and consumption, in response to the development of digital technology, and an aesthetic analysis based on this. In addition to the production of programmes aimed at niche consumers, there is an increasing…
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Are there any benefits to binge-watching?
The way we consume media has changed dramatically over the last 20 years – from how we consume it and interact with it, to the position it has in our everyday lives. The development of online streaming platforms, such as Netflix, has shaped how we consume TV content in a new way and, as Jenner…
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The Threshold between Cinema and Music Video: Paul Thomas Anderson and Thom Yorke’s ANIMA (2019)
From the days when MTV was mainstream, to the present day when music videos are released on various platforms including YouTube, the production, distribution, consumption and forms of expression of music videos are becoming increasingly diverse, with various media interpenetrating with each other (Gina Arnold et.al., 2017.). In this post, I will take up ANIMA…
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The Retelling of Trans TV through ‘Pose’
‘Pose’ is a groundbreaking television series that can be analysed through various theoretical frameworks discussed in the articles cited. The show, which focuses on the African-American and Latino LGBTQ ballroom culture scene in New York City in the late 1980s, can be analysed in relation to the concepts of Trans TV and queer television. In…
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The structure of feeling within FKA Twigs ‘Water Me’
In linking the ideas from Steven Shaviro’s analysis of post-cinema in Post-Cinematic Affect (2011), we can better understand how FKA Twigs’ “Water Me” leverages glitch effects and CGI to craft a unique visual language that is deeply connected to the evolving technological aesthetics of contemporary music videos. Shaviro argues that filmic cinema has been “surpassed”…
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