Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory (eBook)

Angela M. Cirucci, Barry Vacker (Herausgeber)

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2018
274 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498573542 (ISBN)

Infos

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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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.

Autor

Angela M. Cirucci is assistant professor of media studies at Kutztown University.Barry Vacker is associate professor in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University.

Inhalt

IntroductionSection 1: Human IdentityChapter 1: Race, Cyborgs, and the Pitfalls of Biopolitical Discourse in Black Mirror’s “Men Against Fire”Diana Leon-Boys and Morten Stinus KristensenChapter 2: Digitally Natural: Gender and Sexuality Norms in Black MirrorAngela M. CirucciChapter 3: A Virtual Ever-After: Utopia, Race, and Gender in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero”Eleanor DrageSection 2: Surveillance CultureChapter 4: Black Mirror’s “Nosedive” as a new Panopticon: Interveillance and Digital Parrhesia in Alternative RealitiesFrancois Allard-Huver and Julie Escurignan Chapter 5: All Eyes on Me: Surveillance and the Digital Archive in “The Entire History of You”Derek R. BlackwellChapter 6: Seeing the “Surveillant Face” of Technology in Black Mirror: Using Futuristic Scenarios for an Interdisciplinary Discussion on the Feasibility and Implications of TechnologyPinelopi Troullinou and Mathieu d’AquinSection 3: The Spectacle and HyperrealityChapter 7: Waldo Wins IRL: Donald Trump, Black Mirror, and the Politics of Jean Baudrillard’s HyperrealMichael Mario AlbrechtChapter 8: Why Black Mirror is Really Written by Jean Baudrillard: A Philosophical Interpretation of Charlie Brooker’s Series Manel Jiménez-Morales and Marta Lopera-MármolChapter 9: Spectacular Tech-Nightmare: Broadcasting Guy DebordFernando Gabriel Pagnoni BernsSection 4: AestheticsChapter 10: Rhetorical Ethics in Black Mirror: The Aesthetics of Existence in Hyperreality and PosthumanityHillary A. JonesChapter 11: The Hysterical Sublime: Black Mirror, “Playtest,” and the Crises of the PresentMatthew FlisfederChapter 12: Black Mirror, White Spaces: Nihilism, Enlightenment, and TechnologyBarry Vacker and Erin EspelieSection 5: Technology and ExistenceChapter 13: Over-Extended Media: Hashtag Hatred and Domestic DronesJulia M. Hildebrand Chapter 14: Unbearable Burden: Discipline, Punishment, and Moral Dystopia in Black Mirror’s “White Bear”Osei AlleyneChapter 15: The Entire Evolution of Media: A Media Ecological Approach to Black MirrorCarlos A. ScolariSection 6: Dystopian FuturesChapter 16: Heterotopias and Utopias in Black Mirror: Michel Foucault on “San Junipero”Sarah J. ConstantChapter 17: Trapped in Dystopian Techno Realities: Nosediving into Simulation through Consumptive ViewingErika M. Thomas and Romin RajanChapter 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 FaureConclusion: Connecting Our Themes to Season Four and the FutureIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2018
• Co-Autor: Michael Mario Albrecht, Erin Espelie, Antoine Faure, Matthew Flisfeder, Julia M. Hildebrand, Manel Jimenez-Morales, Hillary A. Jones, Morten Stinus Kristensen, Diana Leon-Boys, Marta Lopera-Marmol, Macarena Urzua Opazo, Francois Allard-Huver, Romin Rajan, Carlos A. Scolari, Erika M. Thomas, Pinelopi Troullinou, Barry Vacker, Mathieu d'Aquin, Osei Alleyne, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Derek R. Blackwell, Angela M. Cirucci, Sarah J. Constant, Eleanor Drage, Julie Escurignan
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Baudrillard • Black Mirror • Critical Media Theory • Dystopia • Foucault • Human identity • hyperreality • Netflix • popular culture • Science Fiction • simulacra • Simulation • Spectacle • Speculative Fiction • surveillance culture • Technology • Television • Utopia
• ISBN-13: 9781498573542 / 9781498573542