Djoymi Baker is Lecturer in Media and Cinema Studies at RMIT University. She has published work on children’s screen cultures; intergenerational fandom; film and television genres and reception; streaming cultures; and myth in popular culture. Djoymi is a Chief Investigator on the project Australian Children’s Television Cultures.  

Areas of interest: Film and television reception, Children’s screen cultures, Streaming cultures, Myth reception

Baker, D. (2020). Child’s Play: Addressing the young Cold War audience in Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949-55). Critical Studies in Television, 1(2), 112–128.

Baker, D. (2018). Hercules: Transmedia Superhero Mythology. In N. Diak (Ed.), The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s (pp. 44–62). McFarland. 

Baker, D. (2018). To Boldly Go: Marketing the Myth of Star Trek. I.B. Tauris. 

Baker, D. (2017). Terms of excess: Binge-viewing, epic-viewing, and the Netflix effect. In C. Barker & M. Wiatrowski (Eds.), The Age of Netflix: Critical Essays on Streaming Media, Digital Delivery and Instant Access (pp. 31–54). McFarland.

Baker, D., Balanzategui, J., &Sandars, D. (2023). Netflix, Fantastic Genres and Intergenerational Viewing: Family Watch Together TV. Routledge.