Overview
Examines Black Mirror from critical interdisciplinary perspectives
Considers the impact of new technologies on our own moral universe
Explores the lessons that Black Mirror, as a work of dystopian science fiction, may have for our technologically mediated world
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Margaret Gibson a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Griffith University, Australia. She author of several books including Objects of the Dead: Mourning and Memory in Everyday Life and the most recent (with Clarissa Carden) Living and Dying in a Virtual World: Digital Kinship, Nostalgia, and Mourning in Second Life.
Clarissa Carden is a historical sociologist and a postdoctoral research fellow at Griffith University, Australia, with an interest in the intersection of morality and social change, focusing on the lives of young people.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Moral Uncanny in Black Mirror
Editors: Margaret Gibson, Clarissa Carden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47495-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47494-2Published: 06 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47497-3Published: 06 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47495-9Published: 05 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 195
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, Digital/New Media