Mareike Jenner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mareike Jenner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mareike |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenner |
| SIGNATURE | JENNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anglia Ruskin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1674-4376 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 121 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Between grammars of transnationalism and hyper-localisation: Strategies of Netflix and Amazon in transnational streaming
This article deals with the different strategies transnational streamers use to integrate programming in different markets, specifically looking at language and how it is couched within a wider network of strategies to formulate transnational appeal. The article will look specifically at German language programming on Netflix and Amazon, and the different strategies they use to appeal to viewers. Netflix relies on what I call a ‘grammar of transn…
The quantification of diversity: Netflix, visibility politics and the grammar of transnationalism
This article argues for Netflix’ efforts to create a transnational middlebrow, highlighting especially the strategy of visibility politics as a measure to create a metrics for ‘diversity and inclusion’ in a process I call the quantification of diversity. Hence, the article seeks to draw together themes of Netflix’ efforts in transnationalism, the platform’s efforts in diversity and inclusion and the strategy of visibility politics, common to midd…
Television in the Streaming Era, Jean K. Chalaby (2023)
Review of: Television in the Streaming Era , Jean K. Chalaby (2023) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-00919-926-1, p/bk, £26.99
Netflix and the Re-invention of Television
This book deals with the ways Netflix has influenced the contemporary television landscape and built the infrastructures of streaming
The Case of John and Juliet: TV Reboots, Gender Swaps, and the Denial of Queer Identity
This article deals with issues of diversity and “visibility politics” in contemporary American middlebrow television. The focus here is specifically how the reboots of Hawaii Five-0 approach these issues. This article uses the gender swap Magnum, P.I. , where Higgins (John Hillerman/Perdita Weeks) is rendered female, as an example to explore how feminism and queer visibility are pitted against each other, while being rendered politically mute. Wh…
Looking at men: 1980S middlebrow TV and visual culture
This article explores middlebrow culture on early 1980s television and the narrative structures and visual politics employed. The focus lies on Remington Steele (1983–87) and Magnum, P.I. (1980–88) as two middlebrow TV series that emphasize the male lead and link in with shifts in the visual culture of the era. Both series function within frameworks of middlebrow TV and visually focus on their male heroes’ bodies. The article analyses the term mi…
Netflix, nostalgia and transnational television
This article offers an overview of the various kinds of nostalgia Netflix engages with. The focus here is self-produced originals and the way nostalgic elements are used to create different kinds of political outlooks within a transnational television environment. An underlying question is: in what ways can nostalgia be political within the transnational context of Netflix? The article explores this question while giving an overview of nostalgia’…
Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies
Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Research
Focuses on binge-watching and its role in contemporary television studies Includes original research from different sub-fields of television studies Develops a nuanced understanding of binge-watching by exploring it from the perspectives of fan studies, audience research, transnational television studies and narratology Takes an in-depth look at contemporary television culture Individual authors have exchanged and developed ideas together, creati…
Researching Binge-Watching
This piece gives an overview of the different ways binge-watching is explored and analysed in contemporary television studies. It specifically explores the way binge-watching has been covered in the technological histories of television, fan studies, audience reception research, and narratology. In this, it insists that binge-watching is deployed in different ways within the broad and diverse field of television studies. The distinct uses of bing…
Introduction: Netflix as Transnational Broadcaster
Introduction: Netflix and the Re-invention of Television
Netflix and the Re-invention of Television
On binge-watching: Nine critical propositions
Binge-watching: Video-on-demand, quality TV and mainstreaming fandom
This article explores the concept of the binge as viewing protocol associated with fan practices, industry practice and linked to ‘cult’ and ‘quality’ serialised content. Viewing binge-watching as an intersection of discourses of industry, audience and text, the concept is analysed here as shaped by a range of issues that dominate the contemporary media landscape. In this, factors like technological developments, fan discourses and practices bein…
We Need to Talk about Jack! On the Representation of Male Homosexuality in American Teen Soaps
In the first episode of Season 4 of Dawson’s Creek (WB, 1998–2003), ‘Self Reliance’, Dawson (played by James Van Der Beek) remarks to his friend Jack (played by Kerr Smith): ‘Not every kiss has to be a life-altering event’ to which Jack replies emphatically ‘I know! I know!’. In this exchange, this incredibly self-referential text may very well be pointing to its own rather uncontroversial, maybe even under-noticed, airing of a passionate same-se…
We Need to Talk about Jack! On the Representation of Male Homosexuality in American Teen Soaps
Is this TVIV? On Netflix, TVIII and binge-watching
This article explores the relationship between television and video on demand (VOD), focusing specifically on Netflix and its recent move to produce and distribute original serialised drama. Drawing on a number of conceptualisations of contemporary media, this article positions Netflix within a contemporary media landscape, paying particular attention to how it relates to branding strategies of multi-platform serialised content and subscription c…
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime
In 2001 Roger Ekirch published a provocative and learned article in the American Historical Review (cvi) which argued that there is a social and cultural history of sleep. Today waking in the middle of the night is generally considered to be a problem calling for medication or special relaxation techniques, or requiring a reluctant visit to the computer in order to work on an overdue review until the afflicted person is sufficiently tired to get …
Shorter notice. The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London. Cynthia Wall
Is this TVIV? On Netflix, TVIII and binge-watching
This article explores the relationship between television and video on demand (VOD), focusing specifically on Netflix and its recent move to produce and distribute original serialised drama. Drawing on a number of conceptualisations of contemporary media, this article positions Netflix within a contemporary media landscape, paying particular attention to how it relates to branding strategies of multi-platform serialised content and subscription c…
Binge-watching: Video-on-demand, quality TV and mainstreaming fandom
This article explores the concept of the binge as viewing protocol associated with fan practices, industry practice and linked to ‘cult’ and ‘quality’ serialised content. Viewing binge-watching as an intersection of discourses of industry, audience and text, the concept is analysed here as shaped by a range of issues that dominate the contemporary media landscape. In this, factors like technological developments, fan discourses and practices bein…
Researching Binge-Watching
This piece gives an overview of the different ways binge-watching is explored and analysed in contemporary television studies. It specifically explores the way binge-watching has been covered in the technological histories of television, fan studies, audience reception research, and narratology. In this, it insists that binge-watching is deployed in different ways within the broad and diverse field of television studies. The distinct uses of bing…
Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Research
Focuses on binge-watching and its role in contemporary television studies Includes original research from different sub-fields of television studies Develops a nuanced understanding of binge-watching by exploring it from the perspectives of fan studies, audience research, transnational television studies and narratology Takes an in-depth look at contemporary television culture Individual authors have exchanged and developed ideas together, creati…
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime
In 2001 Roger Ekirch published a provocative and learned article in the American Historical Review (cvi) which argued that there is a social and cultural history of sleep. Today waking in the middle of the night is generally considered to be a problem calling for medication or special relaxation techniques, or requiring a reluctant visit to the computer in order to work on an overdue review until the afflicted person is sufficiently tired to get …
On binge-watching: Nine critical propositions
Shorter notice. The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London. Cynthia Wall
At Day's Close: A History of Nighttime
In 2001 Roger Ekirch published a provocative and learned article in the American Historical Review (cvi) which argued that there is a social and cultural history of sleep. Today waking in the middle of the night is generally considered to be a problem calling for medication or special relaxation techniques, or requiring a reluctant visit to the computer in order to work on an overdue review until the afflicted person is sufficiently tired to get …
We Need to Talk about Jack! On the Representation of Male Homosexuality in American Teen Soaps
In the first episode of Season 4 of Dawson’s Creek (WB, 1998–2003), ‘Self Reliance’, Dawson (played by James Van Der Beek) remarks to his friend Jack (played by Kerr Smith): ‘Not every kiss has to be a life-altering event’ to which Jack replies emphatically ‘I know! I know!’. In this exchange, this incredibly self-referential text may very well be pointing to its own rather uncontroversial, maybe even under-noticed, airing of a passionate same-se…
We Need to Talk about Jack! On the Representation of Male Homosexuality in American Teen Soaps
Is this TVIV? On Netflix, TVIII and binge-watching
This article explores the relationship between television and video on demand (VOD), focusing specifically on Netflix and its recent move to produce and distribute original serialised drama. Drawing on a number of conceptualisations of contemporary media, this article positions Netflix within a contemporary media landscape, paying particular attention to how it relates to branding strategies of multi-platform serialised content and subscription c…
Binge-watching: Video-on-demand, quality TV and mainstreaming fandom
This article explores the concept of the binge as viewing protocol associated with fan practices, industry practice and linked to ‘cult’ and ‘quality’ serialised content. Viewing binge-watching as an intersection of discourses of industry, audience and text, the concept is analysed here as shaped by a range of issues that dominate the contemporary media landscape. In this, factors like technological developments, fan discourses and practices bein…
Introduction: Netflix as Transnational Broadcaster
Introduction: Netflix and the Re-invention of Television
Netflix and the Re-invention of Television
On binge-watching: Nine critical propositions
Researching Binge-Watching
This piece gives an overview of the different ways binge-watching is explored and analysed in contemporary television studies. It specifically explores the way binge-watching has been covered in the technological histories of television, fan studies, audience reception research, and narratology. In this, it insists that binge-watching is deployed in different ways within the broad and diverse field of television studies. The distinct uses of bing…
Netflix, nostalgia and transnational television
This article offers an overview of the various kinds of nostalgia Netflix engages with. The focus here is self-produced originals and the way nostalgic elements are used to create different kinds of political outlooks within a transnational television environment. An underlying question is: in what ways can nostalgia be political within the transnational context of Netflix? The article explores this question while giving an overview of nostalgia’…
Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies
Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Research
Focuses on binge-watching and its role in contemporary television studies Includes original research from different sub-fields of television studies Develops a nuanced understanding of binge-watching by exploring it from the perspectives of fan studies, audience research, transnational television studies and narratology Takes an in-depth look at contemporary television culture Individual authors have exchanged and developed ideas together, creati…
Looking at men: 1980S middlebrow TV and visual culture
This article explores middlebrow culture on early 1980s television and the narrative structures and visual politics employed. The focus lies on Remington Steele (1983–87) and Magnum, P.I. (1980–88) as two middlebrow TV series that emphasize the male lead and link in with shifts in the visual culture of the era. Both series function within frameworks of middlebrow TV and visually focus on their male heroes’ bodies. The article analyses the term mi…
Television in the Streaming Era, Jean K. Chalaby (2023)
Review of: Television in the Streaming Era , Jean K. Chalaby (2023) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-00919-926-1, p/bk, £26.99
Netflix and the Re-invention of Television
This book deals with the ways Netflix has influenced the contemporary television landscape and built the infrastructures of streaming
The Case of John and Juliet: TV Reboots, Gender Swaps, and the Denial of Queer Identity
This article deals with issues of diversity and “visibility politics” in contemporary American middlebrow television. The focus here is specifically how the reboots of Hawaii Five-0 approach these issues. This article uses the gender swap Magnum, P.I. , where Higgins (John Hillerman/Perdita Weeks) is rendered female, as an example to explore how feminism and queer visibility are pitted against each other, while being rendered politically mute. Wh…
The quantification of diversity: Netflix, visibility politics and the grammar of transnationalism
This article argues for Netflix’ efforts to create a transnational middlebrow, highlighting especially the strategy of visibility politics as a measure to create a metrics for ‘diversity and inclusion’ in a process I call the quantification of diversity. Hence, the article seeks to draw together themes of Netflix’ efforts in transnationalism, the platform’s efforts in diversity and inclusion and the strategy of visibility politics, common to midd…
Between grammars of transnationalism and hyper-localisation: Strategies of Netflix and Amazon in transnational streaming
This article deals with the different strategies transnational streamers use to integrate programming in different markets, specifically looking at language and how it is couched within a wider network of strategies to formulate transnational appeal. The article will look specifically at German language programming on Netflix and Amazon, and the different strategies they use to appeal to viewers. Netflix relies on what I call a ‘grammar of transn…
Sociology (16 works) · Art (15 works) · Media Studies and Communication (14 works) · Media studies (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)