A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Kate Fortmueller explores the ramifications of contemporary labor conflicts on the entertainment industry in the digital landscape.
Read moreEleanor Patterson analyzes Hulu’s initial aim of adapting broadcast distribution logics into streaming distribution and the service’s contemporary shift to an “Adult Disney” service.
Read moreHazem Fahmy analyzes Netflix’s recent acquisition of Egyptian films, television series, and plays.
Read moreBrian Fauteux questions the theoretical “celestial jukebox” of algorithm-driven music streaming services and the actual variety and access their catalogues offer, and compares it to campus radio stations and their rich libraries of more local and diverse music.
Read moreRoderik Smits considers how online streaming and transactional platforms have responded to the mass closure of movie theaters during the Covid-19 health crisis.
Read moreSarah E. S. Sinwell reflects on Sundance 2020’s biggest films and distribution deals, as well the diversity of the directors at the festival.
Read moreAccording to Netflix, Adam Sandler dominated the platform in 2019. Danielle Williams breaks down his success by looking at the numbers.
Read moreBrian Fauteux takes readers through his experience participating in Canada’s copyright review process. The author particularly highlights how the current state of the market allows for large companies to have a great deal of control over artists.
Read moreAndrew Gilmore takes up Amazon’s Strangers to reveal the ways the show addresses the mainlandization of Hong Kong and the rising tide of protests against the CPC’s influence.
Read moreRusty Hatchell examines the industrial implications of the sudden cancellation of DC Universe original series, Swamp Thing, amidst the recent acquisition of Time Warner and DC Entertainment by AT&T.
Read morePeter C. Kunze examines Netflix’s budding interest in Broadway theatre, which continues film and television’s longstanding investment in theatrical entertainment.
Read moreAlison Harvey contextualizes Twitch streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins’ refusal to stream with female gamers within digital culture practices and historically gendered patterns of labour.