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Focusing on Netflix's child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle of dark science-fiction, horror, and fantasy television under Netflix's 'Family Watch Together TV' tag.
List of contents
1. Family Viewing in the Age of Netflix 2. The Intergenerational Dynamic and "Family Watch Together TV" on Netflix:
Stranger Things as Dark Family Telefantasy Prototype 3. The New "Family Watch Together TV":
A Series of Unfortunate Events 4. Affective Contagion:
Lost in Space's Old Fans and Young Viewers 5. The Haunted Nostalgia of
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance 6.
Raising Dion: Paratexts, Genre Creep and the Horror Next Door 7. New Frontiers in Family Viewing: From
Stranger Things to
Squid Game
About the author
Djoymi Baker is a Lecturer in Cinema Studies at RMIT University, Australia. She has published work on children's television history, film and television genres, stardom, and intergenerational fandom. Djoymi is the author of
To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek (2018) and the co-author of
The Encyclopedia of Epic Films (2014).
Jessica Balanzategui is a Senior Lecturer in Media at RMIT University, Australia, and was previously Deputy Director of the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology. She has published widely on "problematic" children's screen genres in journals including
New Media Society and
Convergence, and is the author of
The Uncanny Child in Transnational Cinema (Amsterdam UP, 2018).
Diana Sandars is an academic in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published widely on the children of Australian and Hollywood screens. Diana is the author of
What a Feeling: The Hollywood Musical After MTV (Intellect, forthcoming) and co-editor of
Gothic in the Oceanic South: Maritime, Marine and Aquatic Uncanny in Southern Waters (Routledge, forthcoming).
Summary
Focusing on Netflix’s child and family-orientated platform exclusive content, this book offers the first exploration of a controversial genre cycle of dark science-fiction, horror, and fantasy television under Netflix’s ‘Family Watch Together TV’ tag.
