Within a postmodern context LGBTIQ+ discourses in Netflix

This thesis is a specific analysis of the discourses on the contribution of Netflix to the LGBTIQ+ consumer culture and the assimilationist structure of this culture in the original Netflix series "Mindhunter", where the role of postmodern's diversity and multivocality discourses in creating this culture is put forth. In this study where a critical discourse analysis was applied, in order to conduct a contextual, interdisciplinary and eclectic analysis, after a detailed theoretical and conceptual research was done, a sequence of historical developments was presented. Subsequently, postmodern, feminism, the LGBTIQ+ movement and queer theory were analysed together and the effects of postmoden were identified while also taking into consideration the historical background. As part of the discourses obtained in the "Mindhunter" series the pursued ideological and sociological purposes, the postmodern effects and conscious or unconscious bias were discussed and the legalisation, enhancement, legitimization and reconstructive procedures of the relationship between hegemony and power were clarified together with an analysis on postmodern and neoliberalism. Considering the fact that the series is based on a real life story and thanks to the analysis of the book "Mindhunter" which was a source for the series, the added context of the LGBTIQ+ discourses was noticed and the causes and consequences of added or removed elements during the transfer of the story from a real life to a fictional world were discussed. Some of the topic enlightened here are how postmodernism provides a cultural foundation for neoliberalism, specifically how Netflix protects the interests of the capital class and with its increasing popularity, detaches the LGBTIQ+ movement from its context, in the words of Foucault (2018) the 21st-century response to the process of rebuilding the subjects that are being represented by the power with increasing discourses. This thesis is a multidisciplinary study which aims to make an important contribution to the literature by clearly presenting the effect of postmodern theory in different disciplines such as philosophy, media, history, sociology, gender studies, or politics, in context of the topic of this study.