Rewatch Podcast Ethnography as Feminist Media Industry Studies Methodology

This article proposes rewatch podcast ethnography as a feminist media industry studies methodology. Hosted by cast members of no-longer-airing TV series, rewatch podcasts as a paratextual source offer insight into the labor and lived realities of working actors. As a medium, podcasts contain heightened levels of intimacy and affective nuance that enable scholars to access and analyze the emotional dimension of creative laborers' experiences. I outline how scholars can utilize and lean into rewatch podcasts' distinctive variations of spin, intimacy, and affect to produce innovative feminist analyses of the female experience in media production.