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The dystopian series Black Mirror is infamous for its apocalyptic portrayals of humankind’s relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies. This timely collection offers innovati...
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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.
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Pages: 334
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 19 January 2021
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837652321
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism

German A. Duarte (Dr.) is a media theorist, film scholar, film editor and currently assistant professor of film and media studies at Freie Universität Bozen. His research interests include the history of media, film history, cognitive cultural economy and philosophy.
Justin Michael Battin is Lecturer of Communication at RMIT University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. His research focuses on intersecting strands of Heidegger's philosophy with the everyday uses of mobile media technologies and mobile social media.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Imagining the Present Age 9
Black Mirror 25
It's the End of the World as We See It 51
Mind Games 69
Exhausting Choices 87
Qualia Inside the Mirror 103
Technology and Place in Science Fiction 119
Mediated Subjectivities in Postemotional Society 149
Nosedive and the "Like" Dystopia 165
The Price of Visibility 183
Making a Killing 201
Mediated Verminisation 219
Technicity and the Utopian Limits of the Body 237
The 'Death of Neighbour' Seen in a Black Mirror - (Be Right Back on Solaris) 257
Death in San Junipero 277
San Junipero 291
Hated in the Nation 309
Author Biographies 325