Netflicks : conceptual television in the streaming era / Tony Hughes-D'Aeth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes-d'Aeth, Tony, author.

Series:

Viginettes.

Viginettes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Concepts.

Television program genres.

Television programs--Social aspects.

Television programs.

Streaming technology (Telecommunications)--Social aspects.

Streaming technology (Telecommunications).

Physical Description:

120 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

The dead have risen and destroyed the world as we know it. A religious fundamentalist government has taken over America and enslaved the female populace. A woman wakes each morning and is forced to relive the same day, caught in a time loop. In a secret laboratory, soldiers are given a secret drug to remove traumatic memories so they can be sent back to war more quickly. These outlandish scenarios are now quite familiar to us. We recognise them as the plots of some of our most loved shows and films. In this book, these situations are treated seriously for what they tell us about the world we are experiencing. In Netflicks, Tony Hughes D'Aeth explains that screen dramas are a form of thought and that the streaming era has inaugurated a new kind of television -- conceptual television.

Contents:

Introduction: conceptual television in the streaming era

Dystopia

Amnesia

Repetition

Dissociation

Conclusion: the upside down.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781760802721

1760802727

OCLC:

1423518164