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First published: October 1, 2026 - Last updated: October 1, 2026

TITLE INFORMATION

Authors: Júlia Havas and Tanya Horeck

Title: Netflix Feminism

Subtitle: Binge-Watching Rape Culture in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Unbelievable

In: Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies

Edited by: Mareike Jenner

Place: Edinburgh

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Year: 2021 (hardback), 2023 (paperback)

Pages: 250-273

ISBN-13: 9781474461986 (hardback) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781474461993 (paperback) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781474462006 (PDF) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781474462013 (EPUB) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat | ISBN-13: 9781399509091 (online) - Find a Library: Wikipedia, WorldCat

Language: English

Keywords: Modern History: 21st Century | American History: U.S. History | Representations: Films / Unbelievable, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt



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Authors:
- Júlia Havas, School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York

- Tanya Horeck, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University - Google Scholar, ResearchGate, SciProfiles

Abstracts:
- »Tanya Horeck and Júlia Havas focus in more closely on the narrative strategies used to tell stories of rape. The authors, thus, describe how Netflix enables feminist storytelling. Overall, the part on narratology brings together different perspectives to consider the micro-levels of narrative structures in the TV IV era, guided and shaped by ideas of bingeability.« (Source: Mareike Jenner. »Introduction.« Binge-Watching and Contemporary Television Studies. Edited by Mareike Jenner. Edinburgh 2021: 15)

- »This chapter explores to what extent Netflix’s binge-able programming strategy and its effect on serialised narrative structures open up new avenues for interrogating rape culture in popular storytelling. Taking two Netflix original series – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Unbelievable – as case studies, Havas and Horeck analyse the binge-able serial format’s engagement with rape narratives, and considers how this thematisation is shaped by factors such as the company’s branding logic, critical discourses around the cultural value of binge-watching, and the current political mainstreaming of feminist concerns around women’s bodily autonomy.« (Source: Edinburgh Scholarship Online)

Contents:
  Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (p. 252)
  Unbelievable (p. 258)
  Conclusion: Netflix Feminism (p. 265)
  Notes (p. 267)
  References (p. 269)
  TV (p. 272)
  Film (p. 273)

Reviews: Mills, Brett. Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 17(4) (December 2022): 454-456. - Full Text: Sage Journals (Restricted Access)

Wikipedia: History of the Americas: History of the United States / History of the United States (2016–present) | Feminism: Feminist terminology: Rape culture | Television: American television series / Unbelievable (miniseries), Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt | Sex and the law: Rape / Rape in the United States