2. The Creator: Charlie Brooker
-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-)
3. Black Mirror and Metafiction
- Metafiction “is the literary term describing fictional writing that selfconsciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an artifact
in posing questions about the relationship between fiction and reality”
(Wikipedia)
- TV-Narcissism
4. Black Mirror: a British Product
-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.
5. Black Mirror 1.1: “National Anthem”
• 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)
