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You get to stop him! Gendered violence and interactive witnessing in Netflix’s Kimmy vs The Reverend
Critical Studies in Television ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 , DOI: 10.1177/1749602020976914
Stephanie Patrick 1
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Across four seasons of her Netflix hit comedy, Kimmy Schmidt emerged as a strong, female survivor of sexual violence. However, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt would often walk a fine line between post-feminist and feminist understandings of rape and gendered violence, while reinforcing harmful racial tropes rooted in ‘white feminism’. In 2020, Netflix brought Kimmy back for her ‘biggest adventure yet’ in Kimmy vs the Reverend, but, this time, the viewer had the power, as the tagline read, to ‘decide what happens’, with Netflix’s interactive feature. The article argues that Netflix’s interactivity feature is employed in potentially transformative ways, providing a call-to-action to fans and implicating the audience as both spectators and witnesses to injustices of systemic violence against women. However, the 2020 film's investment in, and deployment of white feminist politics mirrors a broader media erasure of the experiences of racialised women, while closing down the interactive potential of identification across difference.



中文翻译:

你可以阻止他!Netflix的Kimmy vs The Reverend中的性别暴力和互动见证

在Netflix热门喜剧片的四个季节中,金米·施密特(Kimmy Schmidt)成为坚强的女性性暴力幸存者。然而,坚不可摧的金米·施密特(Kimmy Schmidt)通常会在后女权主义者和女权主义者对强奸和性别暴力的理解之间走出一条细线,同时加强植根于“白人女权主义”的有害种族偏见。2020年,Netflix在Kimmy vs The Reverend中将Kimmy带回了自己的``最大冒险'',但是,这一次,正如标语所示,观众可以通过Netflix的交互式功能“决定发生了什么”。文章认为,Netflix的交互功能以潜在的变革方式使用,向粉丝发出号召性用语,并暗示观众既是对妇女的系统性暴力的不公正行为的旁观者又是目击者。然而,2020年电影对白人女性主义政治的投资和部署反映了媒体对种族主义者的经历的广泛抹除,同时关闭了跨性别认同的互动潜力。

更新日期:2021-02-23
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