Nahuel Ribke
Biographic Data
| ID | 275759 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nahuel Ribke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nahuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Ribke |
| SIGNATURE | RIBKE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9540-0338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Deconstructing streaming global audiences
Netflix remains the most popular global subscription video on-demand (SVOD) service (available in more than 190 countries) with more than 232 million global subscribers. However, in the five years following Netflix’s 2016 international expansion, there was little information available regarding the consumption practices of global audiences due to the company’s long-standing anti-transparency data policies and varied content across national librar…
Costa-Gavras's Latin American Films and The Formation of Transnational Cold War Imaginaries, Networks, and Audiences
Loved everywhere
Using Netflix’s weekly Global Top 10 lists for English-language and non-English-language series and films, this article highlights some of the ways in which the world’s most popular streaming platform misrepresents both the production and consumption of its most popular geographically diverse global content. First, the Global Top 10 lists create a series of false equivalencies between the popularity of English-language and non-English-language co…
Documentary Filmmakers as Characters
Despite the increasing documentary filmmakers’ on-screen presence in their own films, the analysis of their corporeal presence and performance in the documentary genre hasn't been fully explored yet. Following Plantinga's (2018) discussion on characterization and character in documentary film, the present article proposes to examine documentary filmmakers’ on-screen presence and performance, making three central assumptions. First, documentary fi…
Bilingualism and the Televisual Architecture of Linguistic (dis-) Encounters in the Israeli Television Show Arab Labor
Considered the first fully Hebrew-Arabic bilingual television show on Israeli prime time television, Arab Labor (2007–2013) attracted the attention of critics and scholars for its sharp satire and criticism of the daily dilemmas and discrimination faced by Israeli Arab citizens. Although its success among audiences and critics opened the door for other bilingual television shows spoken in Hebrew and Arabic, it also caused frustration for the seri…
Bilingual fiction series, genre conventions, and the economy of linguistic interaction in Israeli television
During the last decade, an increasing number of transnational and multilingual television shows have been produced, distributed, and consumed via global streaming platforms. The present study aims to examine bilingual fiction series through the analysis of two high-impact Hebrew-Arabic bilingual television shows, produced by the Israeli television industry: Arab Labor (2007–13) and Fauda (2015–present). While previous studies on these shows focus…
Rumo a uma abordagem transnacional da televisão latino-americana
O presente artigo propõe uma abordagem transnacional histórica com o objetivo de compreender os principais padrões e desafios na produção e consumo de conteúdos televisivos na região latino-americana. Em vez de focar em casos nacionais, como fazem a maioria dos estudos sobre o campo, gostaria de destacar aqui a circulação transnacional da televisão latino-americana por meio das trajetórias e passagens de produtores, empreendedores, conteúdos e te…
Netflix and Over the Top Politics? The Mechanism TV series and the dynamics of entertainment intervention
Produced and released by Netflix in March 2018, The Mechanism (2018-), a web series, fictionalised the Lava Jato operation, a series of criminal investigations about corruption in the Brazilian political system that led to the imprisonment of leading Brazilian politicians and businessmen. Analysing the series along with the media coverage in the Brazilian mainstream online and printed press, this article examines the complex and troublesome relat…
Telemontecarlo as a (failed) Italo-Brazilian communications experiment
In July 1985, in what was promoted at the time as a rebuke of center–periphery relation patterns, Brazilian television network Globo, owned by Roberto Marinho, bought Telemontecarlo (TMC), a tiny private television station set in Monaco, with the goal of transforming it into an Italian national television network capable of competing with Fininvest, the leading commercial television group of the time. Encouraged by Italian Christian Democracy lea…
Fauda television series and the turning of asymmetrical conflict into television entertainment
Since its release in February 2015, television drama/action series Fauda has attracted enormous public attention and debate, first in Israel and then abroad, following its global release on Netflix. The story of an Israeli undercover unit chasing an infamous Palestinian terrorist, the series was praised for its ‘realistic’ depiction of the conflict and empathetic portrayal of the opposing sides, as well as for the frenetic rhythm and suspense of …
Introducción
Ampliamente recordado por los sangrientos conflictos políticos y socialesque desató en todo el continente, el periodo de la guerra fría en América Latina(1947-1989) dejó también una fuerte impronta en el campo de la cultura engeneral y en la música popular latinoamericana en particular. Durante este periodosurgen con fuerza diferentes corrientes y estilos de música popular que sedestacan por su claro compromiso social y político. El movimiento de…
Ratings, the state and globalization
This is a study of the introduction to Israel of a technology for measuring television audiences, the ‘People Meter’ (PM), focusing on its political aspects. It links the new practice to the history of the state, precisely to the emergence of the neo-liberal state, which brought about a new relation to numbers, using an increased quantity of statistics for the regulation of economic sectors. In Israel, the state, in both its old (government minis…
Media imperialism beyond the Anglo-Saxon axis, or negotiated hybridity? Neo-Orientalist telenovelas and transnational business in Brazilian television
Since the beginning of the millennium, several Brazilian telenovelas have been partially produced abroad, incorporating in their storylines protagonists from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, exotic customs, foreign jargon, and attractive tourist locations in Middle Eastern and south-east Asian countries. This article aims to contribute to the debate regarding the asymmetries in media contents flow from “central” to “developing” countri…
Transnational activism, new and old media
This is a case study of transnational activism across media genres and platforms, focusing on young Israeli adoptees from Brazil, struggling to trace their biological origins, recover (to some extent) their culture of birth and make their plight known. Theoretically speaking, this study is based on the notion of hybridity, understood as a strategy used by individuals to elaborate new social identities (Israeli adoptees organized as online support…
Entertainment politics
This article proposes to analyse the transition of Brazilian media celebrities into the political sphere during the last three decades by examining five paradigmatic cases of famous figures who have made forays into politics between the years 1982 and 2012. Global changes in the relationship between the media and the political system, as well as contemporary Brazilian history, have been taken into account while examining each case. The study emph…
Modeling politics? Female fashion models’ transition into Israeli politics
This article analyses the recent phenomenon of the passage of former models/television hosts into Israeli politics. The transition of these former models into politics can be seen as part of a wider phenomenon of Israeli media celebrities’ transition to professional politics. Despite the wide media coverage and the heated public debates around the fashion models’ candidacy, until now there has been no serious analysis of this phenomenon. Distanci…
The genre of live studio audience programmes in a political context
This essay aims to contribute to television genre theory by integrating a historical approach with the main concepts of field theory developed by Pierre Bourdieu. I analyzed live studio audience programs aired during the military regime in Brazil as a television genre that is deeply affected by three separate and often colliding forces: its own production rationale, the hierarchical relations between television genres and the political context, a…
El régimen militar brasilero y las censuras televisivas
Este artículo analiza la censura televisiva durante el periodo del régimen militar brasilero, apuntando a la existencia de diversos tipos de censura empleados a los distintos géneros televisivos. Estas diferencias de criterios y mecanismos a la hora de censurar la televisión dejan al descubierto el tenso encuentro entre las lógicas de producción de la industria televisiva y la visión de la televisión por parte del régimen militar como instrumento…
Decoding Television Censorship During the Last Brazilian Military Regime
This essay focuses on television censorship during the last military regime in Brazil (1964–1985) by examining the performance of television censors employed by the Public Entertainment Censor Department (Divisão de Censura e Diversões Públicas, DCDP). It challenges common perceptions about small-screen censorship during this period, pointing to the need to analyse the boundaries and the spaces of autonomy in each television genre. It focuses on …
Telenovela writers under the military regime in Brazil
This article aims to analyse the strategic choices made by left-wing telenovela writers during the military regime in Brazil, their complex relationships with their employer, Globo Network, and the regime’s various forms of censorship. The arrival of many critical cultural producers in the television industry during the authoritarian period in Brazil (1964—85) and the alleged close links between Globo Network and the military regime stirred an in…
Writing the History of Telenovelas under Brazilian Military Rule (1964-1985)
Decoding Television Censorship During the Last Brazilian Military Regime
This essay focuses on television censorship during the last military regime in Brazil (1964–1985) by examining the performance of television censors employed by the Public Entertainment Censor Department (Divisão de Censura e Diversões Públicas, DCDP). It challenges common perceptions about small-screen censorship during this period, pointing to the need to analyse the boundaries and the spaces of autonomy in each television genre. It focuses on …
Fauda television series and the turning of asymmetrical conflict into television entertainment
Since its release in February 2015, television drama/action series Fauda has attracted enormous public attention and debate, first in Israel and then abroad, following its global release on Netflix. The story of an Israeli undercover unit chasing an infamous Palestinian terrorist, the series was praised for its ‘realistic’ depiction of the conflict and empathetic portrayal of the opposing sides, as well as for the frenetic rhythm and suspense of …
Netflix and Over the Top Politics? The Mechanism TV series and the dynamics of entertainment intervention
Produced and released by Netflix in March 2018, The Mechanism (2018-), a web series, fictionalised the Lava Jato operation, a series of criminal investigations about corruption in the Brazilian political system that led to the imprisonment of leading Brazilian politicians and businessmen. Analysing the series along with the media coverage in the Brazilian mainstream online and printed press, this article examines the complex and troublesome relat…
Transnational activism, new and old media
This is a case study of transnational activism across media genres and platforms, focusing on young Israeli adoptees from Brazil, struggling to trace their biological origins, recover (to some extent) their culture of birth and make their plight known. Theoretically speaking, this study is based on the notion of hybridity, understood as a strategy used by individuals to elaborate new social identities (Israeli adoptees organized as online support…
Entertainment politics
This article proposes to analyse the transition of Brazilian media celebrities into the political sphere during the last three decades by examining five paradigmatic cases of famous figures who have made forays into politics between the years 1982 and 2012. Global changes in the relationship between the media and the political system, as well as contemporary Brazilian history, have been taken into account while examining each case. The study emph…
Telenovela writers under the military regime in Brazil
This article aims to analyse the strategic choices made by left-wing telenovela writers during the military regime in Brazil, their complex relationships with their employer, Globo Network, and the regime’s various forms of censorship. The arrival of many critical cultural producers in the television industry during the authoritarian period in Brazil (1964—85) and the alleged close links between Globo Network and the military regime stirred an in…
Telemontecarlo as a (failed) Italo-Brazilian communications experiment
In July 1985, in what was promoted at the time as a rebuke of center–periphery relation patterns, Brazilian television network Globo, owned by Roberto Marinho, bought Telemontecarlo (TMC), a tiny private television station set in Monaco, with the goal of transforming it into an Italian national television network capable of competing with Fininvest, the leading commercial television group of the time. Encouraged by Italian Christian Democracy lea…
Ratings, the state and globalization
This is a study of the introduction to Israel of a technology for measuring television audiences, the ‘People Meter’ (PM), focusing on its political aspects. It links the new practice to the history of the state, precisely to the emergence of the neo-liberal state, which brought about a new relation to numbers, using an increased quantity of statistics for the regulation of economic sectors. In Israel, the state, in both its old (government minis…
Media imperialism beyond the Anglo-Saxon axis, or negotiated hybridity? Neo-Orientalist telenovelas and transnational business in Brazilian television
Since the beginning of the millennium, several Brazilian telenovelas have been partially produced abroad, incorporating in their storylines protagonists from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, exotic customs, foreign jargon, and attractive tourist locations in Middle Eastern and south-east Asian countries. This article aims to contribute to the debate regarding the asymmetries in media contents flow from “central” to “developing” countri…
The genre of live studio audience programmes in a political context
This essay aims to contribute to television genre theory by integrating a historical approach with the main concepts of field theory developed by Pierre Bourdieu. I analyzed live studio audience programs aired during the military regime in Brazil as a television genre that is deeply affected by three separate and often colliding forces: its own production rationale, the hierarchical relations between television genres and the political context, a…
Writing the History of Telenovelas under Brazilian Military Rule (1964-1985)
Writing the History of Telenovelas under Brazilian Military Rule (1964-1985)
Decoding Television Censorship During the Last Brazilian Military Regime
This essay focuses on television censorship during the last military regime in Brazil (1964–1985) by examining the performance of television censors employed by the Public Entertainment Censor Department (Divisão de Censura e Diversões Públicas, DCDP). It challenges common perceptions about small-screen censorship during this period, pointing to the need to analyse the boundaries and the spaces of autonomy in each television genre. It focuses on …
Telenovela writers under the military regime in Brazil
This article aims to analyse the strategic choices made by left-wing telenovela writers during the military regime in Brazil, their complex relationships with their employer, Globo Network, and the regime’s various forms of censorship. The arrival of many critical cultural producers in the television industry during the authoritarian period in Brazil (1964—85) and the alleged close links between Globo Network and the military regime stirred an in…
Modeling politics? Female fashion models’ transition into Israeli politics
This article analyses the recent phenomenon of the passage of former models/television hosts into Israeli politics. The transition of these former models into politics can be seen as part of a wider phenomenon of Israeli media celebrities’ transition to professional politics. Despite the wide media coverage and the heated public debates around the fashion models’ candidacy, until now there has been no serious analysis of this phenomenon. Distanci…
The genre of live studio audience programmes in a political context
This essay aims to contribute to television genre theory by integrating a historical approach with the main concepts of field theory developed by Pierre Bourdieu. I analyzed live studio audience programs aired during the military regime in Brazil as a television genre that is deeply affected by three separate and often colliding forces: its own production rationale, the hierarchical relations between television genres and the political context, a…
El régimen militar brasilero y las censuras televisivas
Este artículo analiza la censura televisiva durante el periodo del régimen militar brasilero, apuntando a la existencia de diversos tipos de censura empleados a los distintos géneros televisivos. Estas diferencias de criterios y mecanismos a la hora de censurar la televisión dejan al descubierto el tenso encuentro entre las lógicas de producción de la industria televisiva y la visión de la televisión por parte del régimen militar como instrumento…
Entertainment politics
This article proposes to analyse the transition of Brazilian media celebrities into the political sphere during the last three decades by examining five paradigmatic cases of famous figures who have made forays into politics between the years 1982 and 2012. Global changes in the relationship between the media and the political system, as well as contemporary Brazilian history, have been taken into account while examining each case. The study emph…
Media imperialism beyond the Anglo-Saxon axis, or negotiated hybridity? Neo-Orientalist telenovelas and transnational business in Brazilian television
Since the beginning of the millennium, several Brazilian telenovelas have been partially produced abroad, incorporating in their storylines protagonists from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, exotic customs, foreign jargon, and attractive tourist locations in Middle Eastern and south-east Asian countries. This article aims to contribute to the debate regarding the asymmetries in media contents flow from “central” to “developing” countri…
Transnational activism, new and old media
This is a case study of transnational activism across media genres and platforms, focusing on young Israeli adoptees from Brazil, struggling to trace their biological origins, recover (to some extent) their culture of birth and make their plight known. Theoretically speaking, this study is based on the notion of hybridity, understood as a strategy used by individuals to elaborate new social identities (Israeli adoptees organized as online support…
Introducción
Ampliamente recordado por los sangrientos conflictos políticos y socialesque desató en todo el continente, el periodo de la guerra fría en América Latina(1947-1989) dejó también una fuerte impronta en el campo de la cultura engeneral y en la música popular latinoamericana en particular. Durante este periodosurgen con fuerza diferentes corrientes y estilos de música popular que sedestacan por su claro compromiso social y político. El movimiento de…
Ratings, the state and globalization
This is a study of the introduction to Israel of a technology for measuring television audiences, the ‘People Meter’ (PM), focusing on its political aspects. It links the new practice to the history of the state, precisely to the emergence of the neo-liberal state, which brought about a new relation to numbers, using an increased quantity of statistics for the regulation of economic sectors. In Israel, the state, in both its old (government minis…
Fauda television series and the turning of asymmetrical conflict into television entertainment
Since its release in February 2015, television drama/action series Fauda has attracted enormous public attention and debate, first in Israel and then abroad, following its global release on Netflix. The story of an Israeli undercover unit chasing an infamous Palestinian terrorist, the series was praised for its ‘realistic’ depiction of the conflict and empathetic portrayal of the opposing sides, as well as for the frenetic rhythm and suspense of …
Telemontecarlo as a (failed) Italo-Brazilian communications experiment
In July 1985, in what was promoted at the time as a rebuke of center–periphery relation patterns, Brazilian television network Globo, owned by Roberto Marinho, bought Telemontecarlo (TMC), a tiny private television station set in Monaco, with the goal of transforming it into an Italian national television network capable of competing with Fininvest, the leading commercial television group of the time. Encouraged by Italian Christian Democracy lea…
Rumo a uma abordagem transnacional da televisão latino-americana
O presente artigo propõe uma abordagem transnacional histórica com o objetivo de compreender os principais padrões e desafios na produção e consumo de conteúdos televisivos na região latino-americana. Em vez de focar em casos nacionais, como fazem a maioria dos estudos sobre o campo, gostaria de destacar aqui a circulação transnacional da televisão latino-americana por meio das trajetórias e passagens de produtores, empreendedores, conteúdos e te…
Netflix and Over the Top Politics? The Mechanism TV series and the dynamics of entertainment intervention
Produced and released by Netflix in March 2018, The Mechanism (2018-), a web series, fictionalised the Lava Jato operation, a series of criminal investigations about corruption in the Brazilian political system that led to the imprisonment of leading Brazilian politicians and businessmen. Analysing the series along with the media coverage in the Brazilian mainstream online and printed press, this article examines the complex and troublesome relat…
Bilingualism and the Televisual Architecture of Linguistic (dis-) Encounters in the Israeli Television Show Arab Labor
Considered the first fully Hebrew-Arabic bilingual television show on Israeli prime time television, Arab Labor (2007–2013) attracted the attention of critics and scholars for its sharp satire and criticism of the daily dilemmas and discrimination faced by Israeli Arab citizens. Although its success among audiences and critics opened the door for other bilingual television shows spoken in Hebrew and Arabic, it also caused frustration for the seri…
Bilingual fiction series, genre conventions, and the economy of linguistic interaction in Israeli television
During the last decade, an increasing number of transnational and multilingual television shows have been produced, distributed, and consumed via global streaming platforms. The present study aims to examine bilingual fiction series through the analysis of two high-impact Hebrew-Arabic bilingual television shows, produced by the Israeli television industry: Arab Labor (2007–13) and Fauda (2015–present). While previous studies on these shows focus…
Documentary Filmmakers as Characters
Despite the increasing documentary filmmakers’ on-screen presence in their own films, the analysis of their corporeal presence and performance in the documentary genre hasn't been fully explored yet. Following Plantinga's (2018) discussion on characterization and character in documentary film, the present article proposes to examine documentary filmmakers’ on-screen presence and performance, making three central assumptions. First, documentary fi…
Loved everywhere
Using Netflix’s weekly Global Top 10 lists for English-language and non-English-language series and films, this article highlights some of the ways in which the world’s most popular streaming platform misrepresents both the production and consumption of its most popular geographically diverse global content. First, the Global Top 10 lists create a series of false equivalencies between the popularity of English-language and non-English-language co…
Costa-Gavras's Latin American Films and The Formation of Transnational Cold War Imaginaries, Networks, and Audiences
Deconstructing streaming global audiences
Netflix remains the most popular global subscription video on-demand (SVOD) service (available in more than 190 countries) with more than 232 million global subscribers. However, in the five years following Netflix’s 2016 international expansion, there was little information available regarding the consumption practices of global audiences due to the company’s long-standing anti-transparency data policies and varied content across national librar…
Political science (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Media studies (17 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Art (10 works) · Media Studies and Communication (9 works) · Advertising (8 works) · History (8 works)