Television formats and cultural representations at Netflix: the case of Criminal

The project I will undertake at the University of Amsterdam is part of my joint doctorate with Université de Montréal. During the proposed period of project, I plan on:

1) interviewing subjects in the context of a reception study (i.e., a number of viewers of Netflix’s Criminal; the television content I selected as my thesis’s corpus) and a production study (i.e., writers and directors from Criminal’s four local versions in Europe)

2) continue on with my research on recent European audiovisual media policies on on-demand audiovisual services and their impact on one of Netflix’s European local-language original productions specifically.

The expected outcome of this project is to better understand how a service like Netflix—which negotiates global and local components in order to reach a worldwide basis of viewers—can shape these components through its usage of abstract television formats in a way that is economically optimal for them and how this affects the locality of European content like Criminal.

Faculty Supervisor:

Marta Boni

Student:

Partner:

University of Amsterdam

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

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