From Spectatorship to “Survivorship” in Five Critical Propositions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21320567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neta Alexander (0000-0002-6370-3112, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-57 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Film Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-1386 • E-ISSN: 1533-8630 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/fq.2021.75.1.52 |
| OpenAlex | W3197679335 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Often theorized through the negative framework of addiction or passivity, binge-watching has been transformed into a civic duty and a mode of survival during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring this recent plot-twist in bingeing scholarship, this article proposes five new ways to study the most dominant spectatorial mode under corona-capitalism. These propositions include studying how the pandemic turned bingeing into an antidote to “languishing,” a feeling of sadness and exhortation that, if unrecognized, might lead to depression; exploring co-watching apps in order to move away from the cliché of bingeing as an individual activity; unpacking the importance of narrative causality during the pandemic’s prolonged structure and temporal limbo; paying close attention to interface design decisions, such as the addition of a “playback speed” feature to Netflix in August 2020; and, finally, demonstrating how binge-watching trains viewers to ignore their basic biological needs while turning them into unpaid laborers
Aesthetics · Anger · Art · Feeling · Literature · Narrative · Plot (graphics) · Political science · Sadness · Scholarship · Sociology · Unpacking · Witness · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |