• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.765-774
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• 2022

Neflix, a Global Over The Top(OTT) has produced various 'interactive contents' since 2015. The interactive contents mean the works in which the video users directly make choices suitable for circumstances on behalf of characters, and the conclusion of story is changed according to those choices. This thesis researches the works that attempted many narrative variations such as in 2020 and released in 2021. Compared to the previous interactive contents, these works had more diverse subjects and choices while the conflict factors and main messages of works were changed. Through this, this study examines and analyzes the diversified aspect and characteristics of narrative structure of the interactive contents in OTT.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.60-68
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• 2021

The purpose of this paper is to examine the formal characteristics of , which has been screened on Netflix since 2018. This film can be considered an interactive narrative because it gives viewers the opportunity to select their own narrative forks which lead to various endings. However, it also limits viewers' freedom of interactions in many ways, resulting in the pessimistic narrative world of series. In this contradictory situation, the conflict between the user's selectability and the narrator's authoriality emerges. And this collision gives rise to a complex form in which nonlinear interactive and linear narrative forms blend together. It can be understood as a form of self-reflection, such as forms of the metalepsis and breaking the fourth wall. In this paper, this particular form will be regarded as a sort of reflexive intermediality, i. e. the form for media reflexion.