This book documents the 70-year struggle between broadcasters and viewers over control of the entertainment experience. Chapters define how binge watching is practiced and explore how its explosion in 2012 forever changed popular culture’s understanding of TV. Also documented is how Netflix and other powerful technology companies exploited a long-simmering, revolutionary narrative of viewer empowerment to take over the broadcast industry.
Through extensive interviews and archival journalistic research, this groundbreaking project chronicles the definitive history of binge-watching, from its idiot box roots to the new normal of Peak TV. In a parallel with contemporary television, the reading experience is interactive and provides multiple narrative threads and endings. Binge-watching, an individual’s act of gaining control and losing control of their own entertainment, exposed a debate that had been raging since the first TV set was turned on. One that asks, “who controls the story?”?
Through extensive interviews and archival journalistic research, this groundbreaking project chronicles the definitive history of binge-watching, from its idiot box roots to the new normal of Peak TV. In a parallel with contemporary television, the reading experience is interactive and provides multiple narrative threads and endings. Binge-watching, an individual’s act of gaining control and losing control of their own entertainment, exposed a debate that had been raging since the first TV set was turned on. One that asks, “who controls the story?”?
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781476684079
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-4766-8407-9
- Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
- Erscheinungstermin: 06.03.2023
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2023
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 408 g
- Seiten: 277
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 15 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt