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Content Is President: The Influence Of Netflix On Taste, Politics And The Future Of Television, Alanna Esack
Content Is President: The Influence Of Netflix On Taste, Politics And The Future Of Television, Alanna Esack
Communication Theses
The evolving television industry relies heavily on the corresponding shift in the audiences that it addresses. New practice for consumption and production, particularly the “disruptive” force of streaming services like Netflix, have been evidenced not only in the methods of the companies themselves but also in the content they have begun to offer. A milestone in the television industry, Netflix’s first original series House of Cards provides an innovative and meaningful installment to the genre of political melodrama, which has its own cultural significance and heritage of mapping audience relations to the media. Analyzing the text, this paper reveals how …
The Chinese Image In Sino-Hollywood Co-Produced Blockbusters During The Era Of Globalization, Zhewen Song
The Chinese Image In Sino-Hollywood Co-Produced Blockbusters During The Era Of Globalization, Zhewen Song
Communication Theses
This thesis explores the global-local interplay among three key players, which are Hollywood, the Chinese government, and Chinese film industry, by analyzing representations of China and Chinese culture in three kinds of modes of film cooperation between Hollywood and China in the era of globalization. Drawing on both the analysis of three factors respectively and the elaboration of tripartite push-and-pull, a spectrum of film collaboration has been built to find out how the leveraging powers work, indicating that the images of China in selected films manifest a shared cultural identity that is hybridized and market-friendly. By further discussing China’s position …