TY - JOUR
T1 - Netflix and Over the Top Politics? The Mechanism TV series and the dynamics of entertainment intervention
AU - Ribke, Nahuel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - Produced and released by Netflix in March 2018, The Mechanism (2018–), a web series, fictionalised the Lava Jato operation, a series of criminal investigations about corruption in the Brazilian political system that led to the imprisonment of leading Brazilian politicians and businessmen. Analysing the series along with the media coverage in the Brazilian mainstream online and printed press, this article examines the complex and troublesome relationship between an ongoing criminal investigation with ramifications for the political system and its fictionalisation on a worldwide internet television platform.
AB - Produced and released by Netflix in March 2018, The Mechanism (2018–), a web series, fictionalised the Lava Jato operation, a series of criminal investigations about corruption in the Brazilian political system that led to the imprisonment of leading Brazilian politicians and businessmen. Analysing the series along with the media coverage in the Brazilian mainstream online and printed press, this article examines the complex and troublesome relationship between an ongoing criminal investigation with ramifications for the political system and its fictionalisation on a worldwide internet television platform.
KW - Brazil
KW - Lava-Jato
KW - Netflix
KW - The Mechanism (O Mecanismo)
KW - media imperialism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101585782&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1749602020980139
DO - 10.1177/1749602020980139
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AN - SCOPUS:85101585782
SN - 1749-6020
VL - 16
SP - 47
EP - 61
JO - Critical Studies in Television
JF - Critical Studies in Television
IS - 1
ER -