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Through the Black Mirror :

3030194582

9783030194581

9783030194574

Through the Black Mirror :

[Book]

Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age /

Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy, editors.

Cham :

Palgrave Macmillan US,

2019.

1 online resource (290 pages)

Microscopic Gods: Toxic White Masculinity in a Neoliberal World

Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction: Read that Back to Yourself and Ask If You Live in a Sane Society; Gazing into the Black Mirror; Between Light and Shadow, Between Science and Superstition; The Fears and Fantasies of Black Mirror: From "The National Anthem" to Bandersnatch; From Channel Four to Netflix: Black Mirror in the Global Age; Welcome to the Black Mirror Universe; References; Part I; "The National Anthem", Terrorism and Digital Media; Introduction; Power, Society and Surveillance in "The National Anthem"; Terrorism, Cultural Humiliation and "The National Anthem."

ConclusionReferences; "Fifteen Million Merits": Gamification, Spectacle, and Neoliberal Aspiration; Introduction; Gamification; Spectacle and Streaming; Conclusion; References; Enhanced Memory: "The Entire History of You"; The Narcissus Narcosis; When Memory Becomes Pornography; Why Memories Should Decay; Visuality as Power; References; Part II; Making Room for Our Personal Posthuman Prisons: Black Mirror's "Be Right Back"; References; Ideological State Apparatuses, Perversions of Courtly Love, and Curatorial Violence in "White Bear"; References

Deviating the Other: Inspecting the Boundaries of Progress in "Men Against Fire"When There Is No Enemy, Bring Out the Zombies; We're on a Road to Nowhere-The Mass, Roaches, and the Notion of Progress; Empathy Is the Enemy; References; On Killer Bees and GCHQ: "Hated in the Nation"; Rise of the Drone; A Unabomber for the Digital Age; Games, Consequences, Online Hatred and Real Life; On Nordic Noir and Killer Bees; References; Part IV; Dethroning the King of Space: Toxic White Masculinity and the Revised Adventure Narrative in "USS Callister"; Introduction: Ripped from the Headlines

Planned ObsolescenceReferences; Augmented Reality Bites: "Playtest" and the Unstable Now; Introduction; Synched; Game Time; Losing the Real; Under Pressure in the Unstable Now; References; Shame, Stigma and Identification in "Shut Up and Dance"; "I only looked at pictures"; "They're gonna put it everywhere"; "Jerking off to porn or something? Well, everyone does that"; "Is that what you are? A dirty, sick, disgusting pervert?"; References; Unreal City: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Posthumanity in "San Junipero"; References

Political Apathy, the ex post facto Allegory and Waldo's Trumpian MomentIntroduction; Gestation, Analysis and Apathy; The Trump Moment; Endings and Beginnings; References; We Have Only Ourselves to Fear: Reflections on AI Through the Black Mirror of "White Christmas"; Introduction: The Threat of Consciousness; Terminology; "I'm Pretty Sure I'm Me"; "But I Am Me"; "She Cut You Out Good"; Conclusion: The Real and the Damned?; References; Part III; The Planned Obsolescence of "Nosedive"; Augmentation, Simulacra, and Governance; Impression Management and the Vanilla Selfie; Lacie Let Go

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This edited collection charts the first four seasons of Black Mirror and beyond, providing a rich social, historical and political context for the show. Across the diverse tapestry of its episodes, Black Mirror has both dramatized and deconstructed the shifting cultural and technological coordinates of the era like no other. With each of the nineteen chapters focussing on a single episode of the series, this book provides an in-depth analysis into how the show interrogates our contemporary desires and anxieties, while simultaneously encouraging audiences to contemplate the moral issues raised by each episode. What if we could record and replay our most intimate memories? How far should we go to protect our children? Would we choose to live forever? What does it mean to be human? These are just some of the questions posed byBlack Mirror, and in turn, by this volume. Written by some of the foremost scholars in the field of contemporary film and television studies, Through the Black Mirror explores how Black Mirror has become a cultural barometer of the new millennial decades and questions what its embedded anxieties might tell us.

Through the Black Mirror : Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age.

9783030194574

Black mirror (Television program)

Joy, Stuart.

McSweeney, Terence,1974-

20200823090854.0

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