%0 Journal Article
%T Streaming freedom in illiberal Eastern Europe
%A Anik¨® Imre
%J Critical Studies in Television
%@ 1749-6039
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1749602019837775
%X The article asks how we begin to assess the connections and mutual influences between television¡¯s increasing globalisation facilitated by digital distribution platforms and the globalisation of crisis borne by the failure of the neo-liberal free market paradigm, which has resulted in the rise of nativist nationalisms, xenophobia and authoritarianism. I argue that, considering these contradictory developments as interconnected disrupts some of the epistemological paradigms inherited from the Cold War and simultaneously helps us understand ¨C and demystify ¨C emerging paradigms of consumer empowerment associated with streaming in television and media studies. In particular, I demonstrate the importance of resisting sweeping assessments about the globalisation of the ¡®HBO-type quality drama¡¯ by considering the operations of HBO Europe, whose pioneering localisation practices in Eastern Europe have thrived within increasingly illiberal political conditions in the post-socialist Eastern European region
%K HBO Europe
%K digital distribution platforms
%K Eastern Europe
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1749602019837775