Time Machine TV
Digital Television in Netflix’s Dark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9854903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xan Holt (Northwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 272-291 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Germanic Review Literature Culture Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-8890 • E-ISSN: 1930-6962 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00168890.2022.2092390 |
| OpenAlex | W4297681667 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The German sci-fi series Dark depicts the disturbance of a small German town by the introduction of time travel technology. But as the first ‘Netflix Original’ produced in Germany and distributed on the international media company’s online platform, the show itself disrupts a long tradition of linear television through its form and reflects on this disruption in its content. Though the characters in Dark focus on the philosophical, theological, and scientific quandaries of time travel, this essay will treat the ways in which the show’s handling of technological innovations addresses the anxieties that accompanied Netflix’s expansion into the German market and the special affordances its digital platform offered viewers. Moreover, the essay will trace the manner in which the series both self-consciously overturns the typical storytelling conventions of linear television and introduces its viewership to strategies for following its especially convoluted structure. In this way, Dark presents itself as a complex site for delineating the unique qualities of digital television and its impact on the German media landscape
Advertising · Affordance · Audience measurement · Business · Digital media · Digital Storytelling · Digital television · German · Interactive television · Media studies · Multimedia · Sociology · Telecommunications · Television series · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · History · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |