Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies

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Edited by Mareike Jenner

Type: Studies
Subject: Sociology
Keywords: sociology, TV Series
Publishing date: 2021
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English

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Hardcover • 296 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

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978-1-4744-6198-6

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Book Presentation:
Focuses on binge-watching and its role in contemporary television studies
• Includes original research from different sub-fields of television studies
• Develops a nuanced understanding of binge-watching by exploring it from the perspectives of fan studies, audience research, transnational television studies and narratology
• Takes an in-depth look at contemporary television culture
• Individual authors have exchanged and developed ideas together, creating consistency and coherency across the collection

‘Binge-watching’ has become an umbrella term for a number of analytical questions in contemporary television studies, serving to describe the structure, marketing and publication model of Netflix and other streaming platforms.

Because the term describes a range of different ideas linked to streaming television programming, research on binge-watching can bring together a number of different and related questions. This edited collection explores binge-watching and its role in contemporary television from the perspectives of fan studies, audience research, transnational television studies and narratology. This breadth of scope makes it possible to explore a broad variety of meanings and functions of the term and concept in contemporary television studies.

About the Author:
Mareike Jenner is a researcher at Anglia Ruskin University. Her research focusses on Streaming, American Television, and Middlebrow Television. Her edited collection Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021. Her previous work includes the monographs Netflix and the Re-Invention of Television and American TV Detective Dramas.

Press Reviews:
There is much useful material in this collection, with detailed case studies of series such as J'ulia Havas and Tanya Horeck’s feminist critique of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015-9) and Unbelievable (2019), Stevens’s discussion of fan responses to Starsky and Hutch (1975-79) and Orcun Can’s analysis of the narrative structure of Gilmore Girls (2000-7). The writing is clear and accessible; the evident hesitancy throughout in asserting boundaries and definitions helpfully symbolises the messiness of television and indicates understandable caution on the part of the authors, especially for concepts such as this that circulate outside of academia.– Brett Mills, Critical Studies on Television

This book is a welcome addition to research into binge watching. By connecting scholars with each other, it develops a complex picture of what really goes on: that Netflix both disrupts television with its bingeable texts and genres, but that its texts, press coverage and audiences also continue to shape Netflix as television as we know it.– Elke Weissmann, Edge Hill University

This edited collection restores to binge-watching its full complexity as a phenomenon both historical and new, based on audience, fan and industry-driven practices, circulating transnationally and informing the narrative strategies of bingeable programming. The book argues that grasping binge-watching in its complexity is essential for understanding the pleasures and affordances of contemporary television.– Michael N. Goddard, University of Westminster

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