Professor: Jorge Martínez Lucena

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-)
Black Mirror and Metafiction
- 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: 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.
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)