Reintegrating Severance

Interdisciplinary Insights on Apple TV's Dystopian Thriller
2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-57447-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 287 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Manifesting the zeitgeist of our post-pandemic world, Apple TV’s probes the margins of work-life balance, the medicalization of normal humanemotions, and the turbulence of disinformation, resistance, and reclamation.Fundamentally, the series grapples with systemization – how we organize andconstruct our histories, art and architecture, social orders, and bodies and minds.Written for both fans and scholars, collects fifteencritical essays, each offering deep insights into an issue spurred by the series.Constructing History explores identity in the context of historical revisionism andcorporate mythology; Art & Architecture builds on the first section by exploringthe use of visual culture in shaping collective and personal stories; Agency,Autonomy, and Alienation dives deep into the political theories that earlierchapters have touched upon; finally, Multifaceted Bodies and Minds strays from,and ultimately finds a way back to, the intuitive wisdom and intraconnection ofthe self.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dawes, Jennifer

Isacoff, Nora M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio TV-Drama
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Constructing History.- Chapter 2: “Who are you?”: Memory, History, and Nostalgia on the Severed Floor.- Chapter 3: The Grim Barbarity of Capitalist Designs: Class Conflict, Corporate Dystopia, and the Sacred Gaze in.- Chapter 4: Severed From Reality: The Irrationality of Rationality in Advanced Stage Capitalism.- Part II: Art and Architecture.- Chapter 5: Art as an Apparatus of the Invisible Sublime in .- Chapter 6: Mapping the Subject through s Corporate Architecture and Design.- Chapter 7: Resisting the Innie/Outie Dichotomy Through Mundane Encounters: In Defense of “Spaces of Transition”.- Part III: Agency, Autonomy, and Alienation.- Chapter 8: An Investigation of Marxist Alienation in the Post-Modern Workplace in Apple TV's Chapter 9: Brain Eugenics: How to Produce an Ideal Worker?.- Chapter 10: “Defiant Jazz”: Corporate Rewards as Plantation-Style Oppression in Apple TV’s .- Chapter 11: The Waffle Party is Not What It Seems: Sexual, Reproductive, and Labor Exploitation in Severance.- Part IV Multifaceted Bodies and Minds.- Chapter 12: The Aesthetic Virtue of the Severance Procedure: Pledging Spectatorial Allegiance to Both Innies and Outies.- Chapter 13: “Actively Caring For Mankind Since 1866”: Nineteenth-Century Medicine, Pain, and the Worker’s Body in Season One of .- Chapter 14: “The Mystery of Your Youthful Energy”: Time, History, and the Representation of Queer Aging in Chapter 15: Self-Communication in Severed Minds: Perspectives from Neuroscience, Psychology, and Philosophy.

Über Autor(innen)

Nora M. Isacoff’s scholarship integrates scientific and humanistic approaches to exploring mind, meaning, consciousness, and collaboration. She is the Founding Director of the New York Institute for Cognitive Science and the Humanities and a full-time Lecturer in the Discipline of Psychology at Columbia University, where she teaches interdisciplinary seminars such as “Consciousness and Cognitive Science” and “Language and Mind.” She co-authored the book (TC Press).

Jennifer Dawes is a professor and Chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Her previous edited collection, , was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019. Her areas of scholarly interest include dark tourism, television, and cultural studies.