The Digital Dystopias Of Black Mirror And Electric Dreams

Author : Steven Keslowitz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476678685
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Digital Dystopias of Black Mirror and Electric Dreams written by Steven Keslowitz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Laura Winter
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3381112228
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias written by Laura Winter and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Terence McSweeney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030194582
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through the Black Mirror written by Terence McSweeney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 by Black 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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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346215210
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dystopian Aspects in the TV-Series Black Mirror written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-29 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : German A. Duarte
Publisher : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
ISBN 13 : 9783837652321
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading »Black Mirror« written by German A. Duarte and published by Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dystopian series Black Mirror is infamous for its apocalyptic portrayals of humankind's relationship with an array of electronic and digital technologies. This timely collection offers innovative interdisciplinary perspectives on how confrontations with such issues should be considered and understood.

Author : Laura Winter
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3381112236
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dystopia on Demand: Technology, Digital Culture, and the Metamodern Quest in Complex Serial Dystopias written by Laura Winter and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Steven Keslowitz
Publisher : QuillPop Books
ISBN 13 : 0998895121
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why You Better Call Saul written by Steven Keslowitz and published by QuillPop Books. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better Call Saul chronicles the transformation of a decent, likable guy named Jimmy McGill into Saul Goodman, the morally bankrupt lawyer we met on Breaking Bad. Captivating and funny, the show provides far more than a few binge-watched hours of entertainment, raising questions about the legal system and human nature itself. Why You Better Call Saul: What Our Favorite TV Lawyer Says About Life, Love, and Scheming Your Way to Acquittal and a Large Cash Payout examines the many faces of our favorite fictional lawyer, as well as other characters in the Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul universe: ls Saul Goodman a persona that Jimmy invents to attract a particular kind of client, or does he reflect Jimmy's true self? To what extent does Jimmy/Saul bend - or break - the rules to which attorneys are bound?What do Jimmy McGill and Mike Ehrmantraut have in common with Dexter Morgan? What do Jimmy's most important relationships teach us about the effect of outside influences on one's psyche? How do Saul Goodman and Walter White break free of societal constraints? How does Saul manipulate the media in order to promote his legal services? Is he defined by his tacky advertisements? And much more ... About the Author STEVEN KESLOWITZ is a practicing attorney and pop culture expert. He is the author of three other books - The World According to the Simpsons, The Tao of Jack Bauer, and From Poland to Brooklyn -- and several journal articles focused on the intersection of law and pop culture. Please visit his website at StevenKeslowitz.com

Author : Cory Doctorow
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780399180002
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Mirror written by Cory Doctorow and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the provocative Netflix show Black Mirror, Twilight-Zone-style series that uses science fiction tropes to make trenchant and unsettling commentary on 21st-century politics and society. This first of an anthology book series collects all-new, all-original novellas in the style of the show, by luminaries of the literary world. Print run 75,000.

Author : Steven Keslowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World According to the Simpsons written by Steven Keslowitz and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining and informative book is a fun and intelligent look at how our society is reflected in the hit TV show The Simpsons, and how The Simpsons is reflected in society.

Author : Evan Kindley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674981634
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture written by Evan Kindley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the 1929 crash, Anglo-American poet-critics grappled with the task of legitimizing literature for public funding and consumption. Modernism, Evan Kindley shows, created a new form of labor for writers to perform and gave them unprecedented say over the administration of culture, with consequences for poetry’s role in society still felt today.