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Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory

Author : Angela M. Cirucci

Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 41,20 MB

Release : 2018-10-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1498573541

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Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7 media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures where humans collide with technology and each other—tomorrows that might arrive in five years or five minutes. Featuring scholars from three continents and ten nations, Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory is an international collection of critical media theory applied to one of the most intellectually provocative TV shows of our time and the all-too-real conditions that inspire it. Drawing from thinkers such as Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Marshall McLuhan, and Paul Virilio, the authors reverse-engineer Black Mirror by probing the ideas, meanings, and conditions embedded in the episodes. This book is organized around six key topics reflected and explored in Black Mirror—human identity, surveillance culture, spectacle and hyperreality, aesthetics, technology and existence, and dystopian futures.



Reading »Black Mirror«

Author : German A. Duarte

Publisher : transcript Verlag

Page : 335 pages

File Size : 31,58 MB

Release : 2021-01-31

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 3839452325

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Very few contemporary television programs provoke spirited responses quite like the dystopian series Black Mirror. This provocative program, infamous for its myriad apocalyptic portrayals of humankind's relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies, has proven quite adept at offering insightful commentary on a number of issues contemporary society is facing. This timely collection draws on innovative and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks to provide unique perspectives about how confrontations with such issues should be considered and understood through the contemporary post-media condition that drives technology use.



Borges and Black Mirror

Author : David Laraway

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 125 pages

File Size : 49,10 MB

Release : 2020-04-21

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 3030442381

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Borges and Black Mirror convenes a dialogue between one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, the philosophical fabulist Jorge Luis Borges, and one of the most important writers and producers of the twenty-first century, Charlie Brooker, whose Black Mirror series has become a milestone in an age of “post-television” programming. The book’s introduction provides a detailed examination of the terms of engagement of Borges and Brooker and each of the chapters explores in a sustained way the resonances and affinities between one particular story by Borges and one particular episode of Black Mirror. The result is a series of essays that locate Brooker’s work with respect to a rich literary and philosophical tradition on the one hand and, on the other, demonstrate the relevance of Borges’s work for anyone who wishes to understand one of our most emblematic cultural artifacts in the age of Netflix.



Philosophical Reflections on Black Mirror

Author : Dan Shaw

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 225 pages

File Size : 30,27 MB

Release : 2021-12-16

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1350162191

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Black Mirror is a cultural phenomenon. It is a creative and sometimes shocking examination of modern society and the improbable consequences of technological progress. The episodes - typically set in an alternative present, or the near future - usually have a dark and satirical twist that provokes intense question both of the self and society at large. These kind of philosophical provocations are at the very heart of the show. Philosophical reflections on Black Mirror draws upon thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Pierre Hadot and Michel Foucault to uncover how Black Mirror acts as 'philosophical television' questioning human morality and humanity's vulnerability when faced with the inexorable advance of technology.



Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory

Author : Angela M. Cirucci

Publisher : Lexington Books

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 38,94 MB

Release : 2020-03-15

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 9781498573559

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This book provides insight into why Black Mirror has garnered so much attention. Featuring international scholars, the book reverse-engineers Black Mirror episodes and invites readers to consider their own relationships with digital technology through the work of theorists including Foucault, Baudrillard, Debord, McLuhan, and Virilio.



Humanity in a Black Mirror

Author : Jacob Blevins

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 211 pages

File Size : 33,37 MB

Release : 2022-12-20

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1476683824

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The presentation of technology as a response to human want or need is a defining aspect of Black Mirror, a series that centers the transhumanist conviction that ontological deficiency is a solvable problem. The articles in this collection continue Black Mirror's examination of the transhuman need for plentitude, addressing the convergence of fantasy, the posthuman, and the dramatization of fear. The contributors contend that Black Mirror reveals both the cracks of the posthuman self and the formation of anxiety within fantasy's empty, yet necessary, economy of desire. The strength of the series lies in its ability to disrupt the visibility of technology, no longer portraying it as a naturalized, unseen background, affecting our very being at the ontological level without many of us realizing it. This volume of essays argues that this negative lesson is Black Mirror's most successful approach. It examines how Black Mirror demonstrates the Janus-like structure of fantasy, as well as how it teaches, unteaches, and reteaches us about desire in a technological world.



The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror

Author : Margaret Gibson

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 39,52 MB

Release : 2020-11-05

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 303047495X

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This erudite volume examines the moral universe of the hit Netflix show Black Mirror. It brings together scholars in media studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, philosophy, psychology, theatre and game studies to analyse the significance and reverberations of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian universe with our present-day technologically mediated life world. Brooker’s ground-breaking Black Mirror anthology generates often disturbing and sometimes amusing future imaginaries of the dark side of ubiquitous screen life, as it unleashes the power of the uncanny. This book takes the psychoanalytic idea of the uncanny into a moral framework befitting Black Mirror’s dystopian visions. The volume suggests that the Black Mirror anthology doesn’t just make the viewer feel, on the surface, a strange recognition of closeness to some of its dystopian scenarios, but also makes us realise how very fragile, wavering, fractured, and uncertain is the human moral compass.



New Blood

Author : Eddie Falvey

Publisher : University of Wales Press

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 17,32 MB

Release : 2021-01-15

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 178683636X

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This book signifies innovative developments in horror cinema research, as well as the current state of the genre within the film and media industries. It is an injection of fresh insights into horror cinema scholarship. This is a book that includes academic studies from established scholars and early career researchers, as well as fans of horror cinema.



Age and Ageing in Contemporary Speculative and Science Fiction

Author : Sarah Falcus

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 247 pages

File Size : 16,25 MB

Release : 2023-01-12

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1350230677

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Focusing on the contemporary period, this book brings together critical age studies and contemporary science fiction to establish the centrality of age and ageing in dystopian, speculative and science-fiction imaginaries. Analysing texts from Europe, North America and South Asia, as well as television programmes and films, the contributions range from essays which establish genre-based trends in the representation of age and ageing, to very focused studies of particular texts and concerns. As a whole, the volume probes the relationship between speculative/science fiction and our understanding of what it is to be a human in time: the time of our own lives and the times of both the past and the future.



Black Screens, White Frames

Author : Tanya Shilina-Conte

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 329 pages

File Size : 26,14 MB

Release : 2024-11-22

Category : Art

ISBN : 0197511325

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Black Screens, White Frames offers a new understanding of blank screens in cinema. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy and pursuing an affirmative approach to non-images through the concept of the filmmaking machine, author Tanya Shilina-Conte shows how absence can be a productive mode that alters the way we study film.