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The moral uncanny in Black Mirror / Margaret Gibson, Clarissa Carden, editors.

9783030474959 (electronic bk.)
303047495X (electronic bk.)
3030474941
9783030474942

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

English

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

10.1007/978-3-030-47495-9 doi

PN1992.77.B525 M67 2021

791.4572

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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