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The Success of The Netflix Original, The Crown
Netflix recently released the fifth season of The Crown on November 9, and so far The Crown’s ranked second among Netflix’s TV Programmes. The Crown is a television series produced for Netflix by two British and American film and television companies, Left Bank Pictures and Sony Pictures Television Inc. The series follows the story of…
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Digital Cinema and its Hyperrealism
Through the years technology has improved and changed the way we see all aspects of life, including film. The evolution of cinema has allowed us to see movies from a different perspective, until reaching what is known today as digital cinema, which is also linked to the desire to simulate reality extremely, becoming almost hyperrealism.…
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The Ongoing Journey for Trans or Non-binary Characters on TV Shows
As recent technological innovations have fundamentally challenged normative definitions of television and its ‘identity’, similar trend can be found from the increasing representation of LGBTQ characters in TV series that encourages audience to queer or challenge traditional knowledges about sexualities and identities. It should be noticed that the new affordances of Internet distributed platforms also…
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Post Cinema Within Music Videos
Music videos have been popular models for promoting artists and their music for years and have been a successful method of doing so. From Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ (1983) to M.I.A’s ‘Born Free’ (2010) we can see the importance of music videos short film and how they impact pop culture. Post-cinema allows the production of music…
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Queer TV in the world
The coverage of queer characters on a TV program has increased rapidly, thanks to the Internet and streaming services, and it gives the global audience the cosmopolitanism of queer identification and the LGBTQ society TV shows used to be the “third golden age” (Martin, 2013) of the rise and the hegemony of traditional cable television.…
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Multiple ‘Trans’ in Euphoria (1)
How Euphoria(2019-) breaks away from conventions and stereotypes in casting, production and narrative, and embodies the concept of’ Trans TV’. According to Michael Goddard and Christopher Hogg (2020,p.256), The digital streaming platform has brought about a new ‘internet-distributed’ television and a new way of producing and consuming television, giving it more space and opportunities for…
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From queer-themed works of art to Euphoria
It did take a long time for trans and non-binary characters to appear in the TV series. On the one hand, it has been a challenging process in the development of society to identify with sexual minorities LGB and a large number of people who identify have struggled to be successful and achieve a voice…
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Sex, films, and Euphoria
In February this year, the New Yorker published this article. It was an article entitled ‘The Sex Scene Is Dead. Long Live the Sex Scene’. The article’s theme, in the form of a dialogue, was whether sex scenes in feature films are declining and moving to dramas such as Euphoria. The article is an interview…
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Defining ‘Quality’ TV in 2022
The term ‘quality’ TV can be difficult to define. Most frequently, journalists have interpreted this, although it can be troubling considering their targeting an audience: urban, middle-class, educated populations with disposable income – a so-called ‘premium demographic’. However, the dynamics change when it comes to DVD box sets and streaming companies: their audience is looking…
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YouTube: Content Made for You
YouTube as a platform has risen significantly since its beginning in 2005 allowing content creators to upload videos freely under their own management and control. An efficient way of making money if done correctly, as top Youtubers such as KSI, PewDiePie and James Charles have made millions off the back of their content. YouTube provides…
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