Techno-Fantasies of Resistance in the Netflix Series, "Black Mirror"

• In Event: Imagining Alternative Futures

Abstract

Few television shows ave been more preoccupied with the liminal borderlands between the digital and human than the popular Netflix series, "Black Mirror." Despite critics' characterization of the series as a dystopian reflection of public fears about digital technology, I argue in this paper that the show is part of a larger trend in science-fiction television that engages with female agency and subjectivity (See, e.g., Halliday, 2014) and offers spaces of resistance to heteronormativity and racial hierarchies.

Presenter

• Elizabeth Gailey, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga