Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory

Herausgeber: Cirucci, Angela M.; Vacker, Barry

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781498573559
• ISBN-10: 149857355X
• Artikelnr.: 58502158

Autorenporträt

Edited by Angela M. Cirucci and Barry Vacker - Contributions by Michael Mario Albrecht; Osei Alleyne; Francois Allard-Huver; Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; Derek R. Blackwell; Angela M. Cirucci; Sarah J. Constant; Mathieu d'Aquin; Eleanor Drage; Julie Es

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section 1: Human Identity
Chapter 1: Race, Cyborgs, and the Pitfalls of Biopolitical Discourse in
Black Mirror's "Men Against Fire"
Diana Leon-Boys and Morten Stinus Kristensen
Chapter 2: Digitally Natural: Gender and Sexuality Norms in Black Mirror
Angela M. Cirucci
Chapter 3: A Virtual Ever-After: Utopia, Race, and Gender in Black Mirror's
"San Junipero"
Eleanor Drage
Section 2: Surveillance Culture
Chapter 4: Black Mirror's "Nosedive" as a new Panopticon: Interveillance
and Digital Parrhesia in Alternative Realities
Francois Allard-Huver and Julie Escurignan
Chapter 5: All Eyes on Me: Surveillance and the Digital Archive in "The
Entire History of You"
Derek R. Blackwell
Chapter 6: Seeing the "Surveillant Face" of Technology in Black Mirror:
Using Futuristic Scenarios for an Interdisciplinary Discussion on the
Feasibility and Implications of Technology
Pinelopi Troullinou and Mathieu d'Aquin
Section 3: The Spectacle and Hyperreality
Chapter 7: Waldo Wins IRL: Donald Trump, Black Mirror, and the Politics of
Jean Baudrillard's Hyperreal
Michael Mario Albrecht
Chapter 8: Why Black Mirror is Really Written by Jean Baudrillard: A
Philosophical Interpretation of Charlie Brooker's Series
Manel Jiménez-Morales and Marta Lopera-Mármol
Chapter 9: Spectacular Tech-Nightmare: Broadcasting Guy Debord
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Section 4: Aesthetics
Chapter 10: Rhetorical Ethics in Black Mirror: The Aesthetics of Existence
in Hyperreality and Posthumanity
Hillary A. Jones
Chapter 11: The Hysterical Sublime: Black Mirror, "Playtest," and the
Crises of the Present
Matthew Flisfeder
Chapter 12: Black Mirror, White Spaces: Nihilism, Enlightenment, and
Technology
Barry Vacker and Erin Espelie
Section 5: Technology and Existence
Chapter 13: Over-Extended Media: Hashtag Hatred and Domestic Drones
Julia M. Hildebrand
Chapter 14: Unbearable Burden: Discipline, Punishment, and Moral Dystopia
in Black Mirror's "White Bear"
Osei Alleyne
Chapter 15: The Entire Evolution of Media: A Media Ecological Approach to
Black Mirror
Carlos A. Scolari
Section 6: Dystopian Futures
Chapter 16: Heterotopias and Utopias in Black Mirror: Michel Foucault on
"San Junipero"
Sarah J. Constant
Chapter 17: Trapped in Dystopian Techno Realities: Nosediving into
Simulation through Consumptive Viewing
Erika M. Thomas and Romin Rajan
Chapter 18: The Dystopia of the Spectator: Past Revival and Acceleration of
Time in Black Mirror ("The Entire History of You" and "Be Right Back")
Macarena Urzúa Opazo and Antoine Faure
Conclusion: Connecting Our Themes to Season Four and the Future
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors