Dystopian Aspects In The Tv Series Black Mirror

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783346215215

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Dystopian Aspects in the TV-Series Black Mirror by Anonim Pdf

Pre-University Paper from the year 2020 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1-, , language: English, abstract: In this essay the author talks about the dystopian show "Black Mirror" and analyzes the episode "Nosedive". We live in a society with a constant, seemingly positive, technological growth. But what if we lose control over what we are creating? That's what dystopian stories are about.

Author : Steven Keslowitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476678689

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The Digital Dystopias of Black Mirror and Electric Dreams by Steven Keslowitz Pdf

This critical examination of two dystopian television series--Black Mirror and Electric Dreams--focuses on pop culture depictions of technology and its impact on human existence. Representations of a wide range of modern and futuristic technologies are explored, from early portrayals of artificial intelligence (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1921) to digital consciousness transference as envisioned in Black Mirror's "San Junipero." These representations reflect societal anxieties about unfettered technological development and how a world infused with invasive artificial intelligence might redefine life and death, power and control. The impact of social media platforms is considered in the contexts of modern-day communication and political manipulation.

Author : Margaret Gibson,Clarissa Carden
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030474959

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The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror by Margaret Gibson,Clarissa Carden Pdf

This erudite volume examines the moral universe of the hit Netflix show Black Mirror. It brings together scholars in media studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literature, philosophy, psychology, theatre and game studies to analyse the significance and reverberations of Charlie Brooker’s dystopian universe with our present-day technologically mediated life world. Brooker’s ground-breaking Black Mirror anthology generates often disturbing and sometimes amusing future imaginaries of the dark side of ubiquitous screen life, as it unleashes the power of the uncanny. This book takes the psychoanalytic idea of the uncanny into a moral framework befitting Black Mirror’s dystopian visions. The volume suggests that the Black Mirror anthology doesn’t just make the viewer feel, on the surface, a strange recognition of closeness to some of its dystopian scenarios, but also makes us realise how very fragile, wavering, fractured, and uncertain is the human moral compass.

Author : Steven Keslowitz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476637594

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The Digital Dystopias of Black Mirror and Electric Dreams by Steven Keslowitz Pdf

This critical examination of two dystopian television series--Black Mirror and Electric Dreams--focuses on pop culture depictions of technology and its impact on human existence. Representations of a wide range of modern and futuristic technologies are explored, from early portrayals of artificial intelligence (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1921) to digital consciousness transference as envisioned in Black Mirror's "San Junipero." These representations reflect societal anxieties about unfettered technological development and how a world infused with invasive artificial intelligence might redefine life and death, power and control. The impact of social media platforms is considered in the contexts of modern-day communication and political manipulation.

Author : Charlie Brooker,Annabel Jones,Jason Arnopp
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781984823489

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Inside Black Mirror by Charlie Brooker,Annabel Jones,Jason Arnopp Pdf

The first official companion to the Emmy-winning Netflix cult-hit sci-fi television series that's fascinated millions of fans worldwide, with stunning visuals and never before seen behind-the-scenes content What becomes of humanity when it's fed into the jaws of a hungry new digital machine? Discover the world of Black Mirror in this immersive, illustrated, oral history. This first official book logs the entire Black Mirror journey, from its origins in creator Charlie Brooker's mind to its current status as one of the biggest cult TV shows to emerge from the UK. Alongside a collection of astonishing behind-the-scenes imagery and ephemera, Brooker and producer Annabel Jones will detail the creative genesis, inspiration, and thought process behind each film for the first time, while key actors, directors and other creative talents relive their own involvement.

Author : Silvia Albertazzi,Francesco Cattani,Rita Monticelli,Federica Zullo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527525627

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(Post)Colonial Passages by Silvia Albertazzi,Francesco Cattani,Rita Monticelli,Federica Zullo Pdf

While entailing a subversive re-vision of colonial histories, geographies, and subjectivities, the (post)colonial condition has unleashed a chain of movements, relocations, and re-writings that interrogate the globalized and neoliberal society. Ethnic, “racial”, religious, gendered, and sexual identities have been called into question, and requested to (re)define, name, and re-name themselves, to find new ways to tell their stories/histories. The very term “postcolonial” has triggered well-known controversial debates: its adoption is significant of a cultural politics involving the colonial past, controversial crisis in the present, and an open perspective toward alternative futures. Confronting literature and the arts from a postcolonial perspective is a critical and political task involving theories and cultural productions crossing barriers amongst fields of knowledge. The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse yet interrelated cultural fields.

Author : Laura Winter
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783381112227

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Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias by Laura Winter Pdf

Serial storytelling has the advantage of unlocking rather than simplifying the complexities of digital culture. With their worldbuilding potential, TV series open up new artistic horizons, particularly for the dystopian genre. Situated at the nexus of dystopia, complex TV, and a metamodern cultural logic, Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias offers readers novel insights into the dynamics of serial dystopias in the contemporary streaming landscape. Introducing the term 'complex serial dystopias' to describe series that allow audiences to engage with the dystopian premise from multiple angles, the book examines four Anglo-American series, including Black Mirror, Mr. Robot, Westworld, and Kiss Me First. The in-depth analyses trace the variety of ways in which these series offer critical reflections on the human-technology entanglement in digital culture.

Author : David Kyle Johnson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781119578277

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Black Mirror and Philosophy by David Kyle Johnson Pdf

A philosophical look at the twisted, high-tech near-future of the sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror, offering a glimpse of the darkest reflections of the human condition in digital technology Black Mirror―the Emmy-winning Netflix series that holds up a dark, digital mirror of speculative technologies to modern society—shows us a high-tech world where it is all too easy to fall victim to ever-evolving forms of social control.In Black Mirror and Philosophy, original essays written by a diverse group of scholars invite you to peer into the void and explore the philosophical, ethical, and existential dimensions of Charlie Brooker’s sinister stories. The collection reflects Black Mirror’s anthology structure by pairing a chapter with every episode in the show’s five seasons—including an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure analysis of Bandersnatch—and concludes with general essays that explore the series’ broader themes. Chapters address questions about artificial intelligence, virtual reality, surveillance, privacy, love, death, criminal behavior, and politics, including: Have we given social media too much power over our lives? Could heaven really, one day, be a place on Earth? Should criminal justice and punishment be crowdsourced? What rights should a “cookie” have? Immersive, engaging, and experimental, Black Mirror and Philosophy navigates the intellectual landscape of Brooker’s morality plays for the modern world, where humanity’s greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.

Author : German A. Duarte,Justin Michael Battin
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839452325

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Reading »Black Mirror« by German A. Duarte,Justin Michael Battin Pdf

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.

Author : Matthew B. Hill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440873393

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Dystopian States of America by Matthew B. Hill Pdf

Dystopian States of America is a crucial resource that studies the impact of dystopian works on American society-including ways in which they reflect our deep and persistent fears about environmental calamities, authoritarian governments, invasive technologies, and human weakness. Dystopian States of America provides students and researchers with an illuminating resource for understanding the impact and relevance of dystopian and apocalyptic works in contemporary American culture. Through its wide survey of dystopian works in numerous forms and genres, the book encourages readers to connect with these works of fiction and understand how the catastrophically grim or disquieting worlds they portray offer insights into our own current situation. In addition to providing more than 150 encyclopedia articles on a large and representative sample of dystopian/apocalyptic narratives in fiction, film, television, and video games (including popular works that often escape critical inquiry), Dystopian States of America features a suite of critical essays on five themes-war, pandemics, totalitarianism, environmental calamity, and technological overreach-that serve as the foundation for most dystopian worlds of the imagination. These offerings complement one another, enabling readers to explore dystopian conceptions of America and the world from multiple perspectives and vantage points.

Author : GREG. SINGH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 113828811X

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BLACK MIRROR. by GREG. SINGH Pdf

Author : Angela M. Cirucci,Barry Vacker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498573542

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Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory by Angela M. Cirucci,Barry Vacker Pdf

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.

Author : Cecile Sandten,Indrani Karmakar,Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823305033

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Contemporary Indian English Literature by Cecile Sandten,Indrani Karmakar,Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz Pdf

Contemporary Indian English Literature focuses on the recent history of Indian literature in English since the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children (1981), a watershed moment for Indian writing in English in the global literary landscape. The chapters in this volume consider a wide range of poets, novelists, short fiction writers and dramatists who have notably contributed to the proliferation of Indian literature in English from the late 20th century to the present. The volume provides an introduction to current developments in Indian English literature and explains general ideas, as well as the specific features and styles of selected writers from this wide spectrum. It addresses students working in this field at university level, and includes thorough reading lists and study questions to encourage students to read, reflect on and write about Indian English literature critically.

Author : Katarzyna Ostalska,Tomasz Fisiak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000509960

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The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia by Katarzyna Ostalska,Tomasz Fisiak Pdf

This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical background. The international, diverse contributions, including a Foreword by Gregory Claeys, draw upon posthumanism, speculative realism, speculative feminism, object-oriented ontology, new materialisms, and post-Anthropocene studies to propose alternative perspectives on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging writers, directors, and critics. This is a rich and unique collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist literature, media cultural studies, and women’s and gender studies.

Author : Ashumi Shah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783658437398

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The Mediaverse and Speculative Fiction Television by Ashumi Shah Pdf