1st Edition

Digital Film and Television Culture From Hollywood to Social Media

By Helle Kannik Haastrup Copyright 2025
158 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

158 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Digital Film and Television Culture introduces a new framework for the aesthetic and cultural analysis of contemporary film and serial drama, stars on social media and movie awards shows. It examines contemporary digital media culture with four specific case studies, their cultural contexts and how audiences engage with them online. Drawing on two perspectives – the digital media circuit... Read more

1. Introduction: digital film and television culture (from Hollywood to social media)  2. Experimental storytelling from art films to blockbuster: challenging narratives, auteurs and online cinephilia  3. Coming-of-age complex serial dramas, female anti-heroes, intertextual storytelling and online engagement  4. Stars on social media: the celebrity matrix, visual presentation of self and negotiating charismatic authority on Instagram  5. Movie awards as digital film culture: cultural authority, live media event as genre and the online cultural forum  Datasets  Reference

Biography

Helle Kannik Haastrup, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focus on digital film and media culture and aesthetics and celebrity culture on social media platforms.

"The contemporary experience of film and television with extensions via social media interactions, is one that calls for an integrated approach to analysis. Through four thoughtfully selected and intricately analyzed case studies, Digital Film and Television Culture presents us with a new framework capable of handling the complexity of digital film and television culture today. A must have resource for all serious media, celebrity, and cultural studies scholars."

- Celia Lam, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

"The transformation of film and television in the last 20 years is analysed comprehensively and valuably in this book Digital Film and Television Culture: From Hollywood to Social Media. It effectively identifies the digital effects that have shifted our relationship to film and our wider interpretation of film and its reconstruction of what can be defined as “audiences”. Better and beyond any previous investigations, Helle Kannik Haastrup captures the way that film stardom and celebrity is connected to its past, but profoundly reconfigured in its integration of social media being the predominant way that ideas, promotions and formations of influence, influencers and advertising move through our contemporary entertainment economy."

David MarshallEmeritus Professor, Deakin University