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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
- 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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