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Through the Black Mirror: Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age Hardcover - 2019

by Terence McSweeney (Editor); Stuart Joy (Editor)


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This edited collection charts the first four seasons of Black Mirror and beyond, providing a rich social, historical and political context for the show. Across the diverse tapestry of its episodes, Black Mirror has both dramatized and deconstructed the shifting cultural and technological coordinates of the era like no other. With each of the nineteen chapters focussing on a single episode of the series, this book provides an in-depth analysis into how the show interrogates our contemporary desires and anxieties, while simultaneously encouraging audiences to contemplate the moral issues raised by each episode. What if we could record and replay our most intimate memories? How far should we go to protect our children? Would we choose to live forever? What does it mean to be human? These are just some of the questions posed byBlack Mirror, and in turn, by this volume. Written by some of the foremost scholars in the field of contemporary film and television studies, Through the Black Mirror explores how Black Mirror has become a cultural barometer of the new millennial decades and questions what its embedded anxieties might tell us.

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  • Title Through the Black Mirror: Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age
  • Author Terence McSweeney (Editor); Stuart Joy (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 297
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan
  • Date 2019-08-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9783030194574 / 3030194574
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.91 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.231

About the author

Terence McSweeney is Senior Lecturer at Solent University, UK. He is the author of The 'War on Terror' and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second (2014), Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2018) and editor of "In the Shadow of 9/11" American Cinema in the 'War on Terror' Era (2016).
Stuart Joy is Senior Lecturer at Solent University, UK, where he teaches Film and Television. He is the co-editor of, and contributor to The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible (2015).
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