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Author:   Terence McSweeney ,  Stuart Joy
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2019
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9783030194604

ISBN 10:   3030194604
Pages:   297
Publication Date:   14 August 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: Read that back to yourself and ask if you live in a sane society, Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy.- Part I.- “The National Anthem”, Terrorism and Digital Media, Fran Pheasant Kelly.- “Fifteen Million Merits”: Gamification, Spectacle, and Neoliberal Aspiration, Mark R. Johnson.- Enhanced Memory: “The Entire History of You”, Henry Jenkins.- Part II.- Making Room for Our Personal Posthuman Prisons: “Be Right Back”, Andrew Schopp.- Charlie Brooker’s “White Bear”: Ideological State Apparatuses, Perversions of Courtly Love, and Curatorial Violence, Paul Petrovic.- Political apathy, the ex post facto allegory and Waldo’s Trumpian moment, Terence McSweeney.- We Have Only Ourselves to Fear:  Reflections on AI through the Black Mirror of “White Christmas”, Christine Muller.- Part III.- The Planned Obsolescence of “Nosedive”, Sean Redmond.- Augmented Reality Bites: “Playtest” and the Unstable Now, Soraya Murray.- Shame, Stigma and Identification in “Shut Up and Dance”, Stuart Joy.- Unreal City: Nostalgia, Authenticity, and Posthumanity in “San Junipero”, Isra Daraiseh and M. Keith Booker.- Deviating The Other: Inspecting the Bounds of Progress in “Men Against Fire”, Ana Dosen.- On Killer Bees and GCHQ: “Hated in the Nation”, James Smith.- Part IV.- Dethroning the King of Space: Toxic White Masculinity and the Revised Adventure Narrative in “USS Callister”, Steffen Hankte.- “Arkangel”: Postscript on Families of Control, George F. McHendry, Jr..- The Sovereignty of Truth: Memory and Morality in “Crocodile”, Jossalyn G. Larson.- Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before: Relationships and Late Capitalism in “Hang the DJ”, Aidan Power.- Killing the Creator in “Metalhead”, Barbara Gurr.- Hope, with Teeth: On “Black Museum”, Gerry Canavan.- Change Your Past, Your Present, Your Future: Interactive Narratives and Trauma in Bandersnatch, Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy.

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"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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