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Black mirror and critical media theory / edited by Angela M. Cirucci and Barry Vacker.

Van Pelt Library PN1992.77.B525 B53 2018
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Cirucci, Angela M., editor.
Vacker, Barry, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Black mirror (Television program).
Physical Description:
xiii, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018]
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Intro; Contents; Introduction; Section 1: Human Identity; Chapter One: Race, Cyborgs, and the Pitfalls of Biopolitical Discourse In Black Mirror's "Men Against Fire"; Chapter Two: Digitally Natural; Chapter Three: A Virtual Ever-After; Section 2: Surveillance Culture; Chapter Four: Black Mirror's "Nosedive" as a New Panopticon; Chapter Five: All Eyes on Me; Chapter Six: Seeing the "Surveillant Face" of Technology in Black Mirror; Section 3: The Spectacle and Hyperreality; Chapter Seven: Waldo Wins IRL; Chapter Eight: Why Black Mirror Was Really Written by Jean Baudrillard
Chapter Nine: Spectacular Tech-NightmareSection Four: Aesthetics; Chapter Ten: Rhetorical Ethics in Black Mirror; Chapter Eleven: The Hysterical Sublime; Chapter Twelve: Black Mirrors, Hot Media, and Spectral Existence; Section Five: Technology and Existence; Chapter Thirteen: Overextended Media; Chapter Fourteen: Unbearable Burden; Chapter Fifteen: The Entire Evolution of Media; Section Six: Dystopian Futures; Chapter Sixteen: Heterotopias and Utopias in Black Mirror​; Chapter Seventeen: Trapped in Dystopian Techno Realities; Chapter Eighteen: The Dystopia of the Spectator; Conclusion; Index
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Black mirror and critical media theory
ISBN:
9781498573535
1498573533
OCLC:
1035294477

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