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What really characterizes NETFLIX?

Netflix: Media professor Amanda Lotz provides some interesting perspectives on the global streaming services' business models and Netflix's success.
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The role model who fell

Stories about scammers, preferably from reality, are easy to be fascinated by. We are currently in an ever so small wave ...
Aleksander Huser -

Exploring sexuality unrestrained without being judged by others

DATING: Marie Bergström looks at modern love and sexuality in connection with online dating. But is online dating really as safe as she claims?
Pinar Ciftci -

To escape the ultra-Orthodox lifestyle

Thoughtful story of a young girl leaving a Hasidic society for a better life outside.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

Jesus from Instagram

RELIGION: The Netflix series Messiah asks the fascinating question of how Jesus – or someone who appears to be him – would be received today.
Aleksander Huser -

Regime criticism as entertainment

Four Polish women have created an entertaining TV series where sharp regime criticism is the theme – with the talking title 1983.
Ellen Lande -

Identity problems and false confessions

Identity problems among young immigrants in Sweden, and the need for better legal security in the US: Sofielund and New York are the framework for two new Nordic documentaries.
Margareta Hruza -
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Proximity to American conventionalism

Of the two new films about the Utøya massacre, it is Reconstructing Utøya which, through four survivors' honest accounts, in all its simplicity allows us to see both the extent of the tragedy and a way forward for those involved.
Ellen Lande -

Consumerism eats its children

Being chemically free of emotions, pain and fatigue can be good for your career. As long as it lasts.
Ellen Lande -

Hang the disc jockey, burn the disco 

Black Mirror season 4 consists of six standalone episodes with independent action sequences, but with powerful converging themes. These are projections of the intentional and unintended effects of technological duplication, and conflicts these create at both micro and macro levels.
Sigurd Ohrem -

Interesting studies in deviations 

Monster or human? The Mindhunter series digs deep into uncomfortable material to find out the real killer of the serial killer. 
Kjetil Røed -

An almost perfect author portrait

Joan Didion's nephew has made the ideal entrance to her writing.
Kjetil Røed -

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