Black Mirror

Allegories for the Atomised
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-138-28811-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 288 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Analytical Psychology

Black Mirror: Allegories for the Atomised addresses the ways that media and communications technologies shape our relationships with society, with others, and ultimately, with ourselves.

The main themes and discussions of this book are inspired by the imaginative storytelling and self-reflecting, wry, textual strategies and representations found in the Channel 4/Netflix global hit, Black Mirror – a key touchstone in popular culture. Moving beyond the conventional parameters of Television Studies scholarship, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach informed through depth- and Self-psychology, Science Fiction Studies, Science and Technology Studies, communitarian ethics, and the Philosophy of Technology. Greg Singh conducts a critical inquiry into those aspects of memory, identity, surveillance, simulation, and gamification prevalent in the series, which shape our reality and call into question our assumed notions of personhood.

This unique interdisciplinary examination of the cult series will appeal to scholars, students, and fans alike in the fields of film and television studies, philosophy, depth, and humanistic psychology.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Greg

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Themes and Concerns in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror (Ch4/Netflix, 2011–present)

1. Memory, Identity, and Personhood

2. Surveillance, Control, and Satisfaction

3. Simulation, Labour, and Gamification

Conclusion: “It Feels a Bit Like an Episode of Black Mirror”

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Greg Singh is Professor in Media and Society, and Programme Director for Digital Media, based in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Stirling, UK. He is author of Film After Jung: Post-Jungian Approaches to Film Theory (Routledge, 2009); Feeling Film: Affect and Authenticity in Popular Cinema (Routledge, 2014); and The Death of Web 2.0: Ethics, Connectivity, and Recognition in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2019).