Refabricating Individualism and Commodifying Anti-Capitalism: Melodramatic SF and VOD Spectatorship.
This essay analyzes certain audio-visual sf narratives that are primarily distributed via VOD (video-on-demand) platforms, specifically focusing on episodes of Netflix’s Black Mirror and Amazon’s Electric Dreams, considering both in the context of postcinematic spectatorship. It shows how the ostens...
| Publicado en: | Science Fiction Studies Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 332 - 354 |
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University of California Press
Jul2021
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