1st Edition
Streaming Media Platforms and Digital Distribution Industry Convergence and Technological Change
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Specter was Haunting…
Chapter 1
Contorted Convergences: From an Accidental SVOD Window to the End of the Streaming Wars
I. At the Dawn of Streaming
II. How the SVOD Window Was Won
III. Over the Digital Sublime and into the Streaming Wars
Chapter 2
Disney Plus Disney: The Double Logic of Digital Enclosures
I. Platform Problems: Technology and Control
II. Marvel’s Superhero Success: From a Cinematic Universe to Streaming’s Second Coming
III. This Is What Dreams Are Made Of
Chapter 3
In Remembering Times Lost: Netflix, Nostalgia, and Intermediation
I. Never Out of Time: Stranger Things or a New Approach to Original Programming
II. As the World Churns: Platform Economics and Technological Exceptionalism
III. Can We All Just Be on the Right Side of History? Making a Murderer, Televisualization and Surplus Content
Chapter 4
Portal Into the Future of Entertainment: YouTube between New Media and Post-Cinema
I. Welcome Home: Technological Wonder and Vestiges of an Unhomely Divide
II. The Rise and Fall of Internet Starlets: Music Videos and Digital Aesthetics
III. Zany Zombies in a Whack New World: Internet Aesthetics and Hollywood Gimmickry
Coda: All Just a Dream…
Works Cited
Index
Biography
Kevin McDonald is a Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Cal State Northridge, USA. He is author of Film Theory: The Basics (revised and expanded 2nd edition, 2022) and co-editor of The Netflix Effect: Technology and Entertainment in the 21st Century (2016). His teaching and research focus on film, contemporary popular culture, and the intersections between media, technology, and performance.
