Professor: Jorge Martínez Lucena

Our TV-series: “Black Mirror”

-Postmodern narrative: self-awareness

-Charlie Brooker is extremely self-aware about new human behaviors motivated by new technologies and their environs:

1. Dead Set (E4, 5 episodes, 2008)

2. How TV Ruined Your Life (BBC, 6 Episodes, 2011)

3. Black Mirror (E4, 2011-)

The Creator: Charlie Brooker

- Metafiction “is the literary term describing fictional writing that self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact in posing questions about the relationship between fiction and reality” (Wikipedia)

- TV-Narcissism

Black Mirror and Metafiction

-2 seasons (3 independent episodes per season)

-British miniseries: Sherlock (2010-), Utopia (2013-), Broadchurch (2013-), Luther (2010-), etc.

-The plot is different in every episode, but they all talk about how new technologies are modifying our current life.

Black Mirror: a British Product

• Public Opinion (freedom vs. manipulation)

• New Technologies (information vs. manipulation)

• Spectacle (human dignity vs. entertainment)

• TV Narcissism (pop thinking vs. entertainment)

• Artwork (social critique vs. social transgression)

Black Mirror 1.1: “National Anthem”