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While prior studies emphasize Netflix’s show categorization and spectator targeting through personalization systems, this dissertation analyzes Netflix’s technological affordances and how they shape TV writing for a potentially transnational audience, focusing on Italy’s teen drama genre. Using post-structuralist genre analysis, it examines Italian teen series Zero and Baby as glocal dramas.","Netflix: Phenomenology of the Teen Drama Genre in Italy  \nby  \nGerardo Pisacane  \nA dissertation accepted and approved in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of  \nDoctor of Philosophy  \nin Romance Languages  \nDissertation Committee:  \nNathalie Hester, Co-Chair  \nBiswarup Sen, Co-Chair  \nDiana Garvin, Core Member  \nQuinn Miller, Institutional Representative  \nUniversity of Oregon  \nSpring 2024  \n© 2024 Gerardo Pisacane  \nThis work is openly licensed via CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.  \n[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)  \nABSTRACT  \nGerardo Pisacane  \nDoctor of Philosophy  \nin Romance Languages  \nSpring 2024  \nTitle: Netflix: Phenomenology of the Teen Drama Genre in Italy  \nIn the era of online streaming services, the distribution of TV content has altered the old paradigm of the ‘one-way flow’ of media products. An Internet-distributed television such as Netflix enables shows to circulate more seamlessly, across national borders, allowing viewers to access content that would have been more difficult to find in the past. With a presence in 191 out of 195 worldwide countries reached and 260 million paid subscribers, Netflix stands as the most prominent global Internet TV service.  \nMost research attention on Netflix has discussed how this online streaming service categorizes its shows and targets them to spectators, as part of the personalization and recommendations system (PRS) . Scant consideration has been given instead to the effects of Netflix's technological affordances on the writing of TV series. This dissertation addresses this gap in the literature by exploring how Netflix conceives shows aimed at a potentially transnational audience, with a specific emphasis on the teen drama genre in the Italian mediascape.  \nThrough a post-structuralist analysis of the teen genre, which considers genre categories as culturally dynamic and changing constructs, this study examines Zero and Baby, two teen shows written, produced, and filmed in Italy. The examination demonstrates that, because of the friction between Netflix’s global reach and its need to produce shows ingrained with local cultures, this  \nonline streaming’s products emerge as fascinating examples of glocal dramas. Zero and Baby reveal elements in the text that specifically cater to a local viewership and counterbalance the features ofa genre such as teen drama, highly globalized because of the spread of American youth content in media. The results of this analysis add to the field of media studies that examine the increasing number of youth-oriented dramas on Netflix, developing a theoretical understanding of the impact that this online streaming has on the writing of TV shows and genre formation.  \nAKNOWLEDGMENTS  \nAcknowledgments are perhaps the most complex part of a dissertation. This is when you have to take stock and think about all the people who have given you insights, affection, and support in the completion process of your work. The risk is to favor someone and forget another, to line them up in order of importance. The truth is that when you live more than one life in more than one place you end up having more than one family, and the degree of importance among them at some point resets to zero: everyone we love and who loves us becomes of equal importance.  \nTo my biological family, my mother Cristina, my father Antonio, and my brother Giovanni, I owe everything. Without my parents (even though they are no longer physically present) I would not be the person I am. My mother taught me to smile back at Life even when it makes you cry. To my aunts and uncles, my cousins, and every family member who stood by me, I owe the strength that made me keep going even when Hope had left my body.  \nTo my families scattered around the world, I owe equal love, admiration, and endless Gratitude. To Miriam and Alicia, thank you for welcoming me into your family when I was orphaned of love. 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