TV series

Here, yet always there: How Fleabag uses Intimacy as Distraction

Article
Inge van de Ven
02/11/2020
10 minutes to read

The article places direct address in the TV-series Fleabag  in the context of trends in self-representation on social media. Fleabag uses self-disclosure as a form of self-branding, to manipulate the audience and distract herself.

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Jane The Virgin: a westernized telenovela

Article
Emma Wieringa
18/09/2019
12 minutes to read

Telenovelas have been on Latin American television for a long time, but they are now starting to gain global attention. How does Jane the Virgin represent telenovelas in the western world?

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What Sense8 teaches us about the network society

Article
Nadine Visser
01/02/2019
8 minutes to read

The series Sense8 is interesting in the context of globalization because it presents a lot of the aspects of a network society. This article analyses the link between the series and a network society.