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Netflix’s Speculative Fictions

Financializing Platform Television

Colin Jon Mark Crawford

Netflix’s Speculative Fictions
Netflix’s Speculative Fictions

Netflix’s Speculative Fictions

Financializing Platform Television

Colin Jon Mark Crawford

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Description

This monograph offers a close reading of the financial story of Netflix, exposing the central importance of narrativity, performative language, and affect, which drive the speculative worlds of global finance, technology, and now television.



This must-read book on Netflix not only tells the firm's story, but analyzes how it has told it, assessing the crucial financial impacts this narrative has had. Heavily dependent on debt financing for its growth, Netflix’s stories about itself are imperative to its successes as a company – and Colin Crawford’s Netflix's Speculative Fictions is the first book to treat this part of the “Netflix story.” Narrating the growth of Netflix into what it is today, this book also offers methodological reflections on "investor lore" and the linguistic dimensions of financialization –what words do– that can be used to track other corporate narratives and "platform TV" offerings such as Disney+ and HBOMax. Netflix's Speculative Fictions is a necessary read for media industry studies, platform studies, studies of the financialization of culture, and any and all Netflix viewers who have an interest in understanding what they’re really watching when they watch Netflix.



In this incisive analysis of Netflix’s financial history as numbers, data, and performance, Colin Crawford explores the calculus of value in the era of “platform TV.” A vibrant and timely contribution to industry studies, Netflix’s Speculative Fictions reveals that narratives of brand economics written for venture capitalists and investors can indeed be every bit as compelling as our favorite binge-worthy shows.



Colin Jon Mark Crawford is a PhD student in the Film and Moving Image program at Concordia University.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Lexington Books
  • Pub date
    Aug 2022
  • Pages
    132
  • Theme
    Media studies
  • Dimensions
    230 x 151 x 9 mm
  • Weight
    222 gram
  • EAN
    9781793625304
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Language
    English

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