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When Your Motherboard Replaces the Pearly Gates: Black Mirror and the Technology of Today and Tomorrow

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dc.contributor.author Peters, Rebecca Anne
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-20T14:36:52Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-20T14:36:52Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/368987
dc.identifier 10.31009/cc.2020.v8.i14.02
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/49423
dc.description.abstract This paper considers five episodes from Charlie Brooker’s dystopian science fiction anthology series, Black Mirror (2011–present). The episodes selected are those that—as argued in this text—depict the role of technology as replacing that of religion. To build this claim, they will be compared to one another, to the Christian biblical concepts they mirror, and to historical events related to theological debates within Christianity.Throughout the history of Western civilization, Christian belief has played an important role in shaping cultural ideologies. For that reason, it could be argued that Christian ideas continue to penetrate our cultural narratives today, despite declining self-recognition in the West as religious or spiritual. Concepts of the afterlife, omniscience, vengeance, ostracism and eternal suffering spring up in some of the least expectedplaces within popular culture today. This paper argues that Black Mirror depicts the materialization of these concepts through imagined worlds, thus signaling the modern-day specters of Christianity.
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dc.publisher Universitat Pompeu Fabra
dc.relation.haspart http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Comparativecinema/article/view/368987/462811
dc.rights.uri Drets d'autor 2020 Comparative Cinema
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.source.uri Comparative Cinema; Vol. 8, Núm. 14 (2020): ; 8-32
dc.source.uri Comparative Cinema; Vol 8, No 14 (2020): Imagining the Techno-Capitalist Society in Television and Film; 8-32
dc.source.uri Comparative Cinema; Vol. 8, Núm. 14 (2020): ; 8-32
dc.source.uri 2604-9821
dc.subject.other BLACK MIRROR
dc.subject.other SCIENCE FICTION
dc.subject.other DYSTOPIAN FUTURES
dc.subject.other TECHNOLOGY
dc.subject.other CHRISTIANITY
dc.subject.other CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
dc.subject.other HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
dc.title When Your Motherboard Replaces the Pearly Gates: Black Mirror and the Technology of Today and Tomorrow
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.date.modified 2020-05-22T17:40:29Z


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