Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
by Myc Wiatrowski 1
Part 1 Netflix as Disruptor and as Cultural Institution
From Primetime to Anytime: Streaming Video, Temporality and the Future of Communal Television
by Justin Grandinetti 11
Terms of Excess: Binge-Viewing as Epic-Viewing in the Netflix Era
by Dioymi Baker 31
Streaming Culture, the Centrifugal Development of the Internet and Our Precarious Digital Future
by Joseph Donica 55
Part 2 Netflix as Producer and as Distributor
Doing Time: Queer Temporalities and Orange Is the New Black
by Maria San Filippo 75
Netflix and Innovation in Arrested Development's Narrative Construction
by Maria Carmem Jacob de Souza 98
Circulating The Square: Digital Distribution as (Potential) Activism
by James N. Gilmore 120
Part 3 Netflix as Narrowcaster and as Global Player
Binge-Watching in Practice: The Rituals, Motives and Feelings of Streaming Video Viewers
by Emil Steiner 141
Narrowcasting, Millennial and the Personalization of Genre in Digital Media
by Alison N. Novak 162
From Interactive Digital Television to Internet "Instant" Television: Netflix, Shifts in Power and Emerging Audience Practices from an Evolutionary Perspective
by Vivi Theodoropoulou 182
Digital Delivery in Mexico: A Global Newcomer Stirs the Local Giants
by Elia Margarita Cornelio-Marí 201
Selected Bibliography 229
About the Contributors 241
Index 243