Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory
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A32=Angela M. Cirucci
A32=Derek R. Blackwell
A32=Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
A32=Francois Allard-Huver
A32=Mathieu dAquin
A32=Michael Mario Albrecht
A32=Osei Alleyne
A32=Sarah J. Constant
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Baudrillard
Black Mirror
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Critical Media Theory
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Dystopia
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Foucault
Human Identity
Hyperreality
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Popular Culture
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Science Fiction
Simulacra
Simulation
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Spectacle
Speculative Fiction
Surveillance Culture
Technology
Television
Utopia
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- ISBN 9781498573559
- Weight: 417g
- Dimensions: 155 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 06 Feb 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Angela M. Cirucci is assistant professor of media studies at Kutztown University.
Barry Vacker is associate professor in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University.
