Liquid audiovisual narratives of future masculinities: gender identity in Black Mirror

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Narrativas audiovisuales líquidas sobre masculinidades futuras_identidad de género en Black Mirror
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Published: Dec 1, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/rpc.v0i2.2335
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Valhondo Crego, J. L. (2020). Liquid audiovisual narratives of future masculinities: : gender identity in Black Mirror. Revista Panamericana De Comunicación, 2(2), 45–51. https://doi.org/10.21555/rpc.v0i2.2335

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José Luis Valhondo Crego
Universidad de Extremadura

Abstract

Cinematographic representations of identities in popular culture have never been arbitrary; they work by negotiating political meanings with their audiences. Media images can help to emancipate or limit the potential of those represented. Assuming that masculinity has always been a floating signifier ready to be rearticulated, this text aims to analyze the male representation present in the first episode of the fifth season of Black Mirror, entitled Striking Vipers, which gives its name to the video game shared by the protagonists. The results point out the contradictions of media representations that affect the debate on gender identity and performativity. On the one hand, the premises of the story support an emancipatory thesis of gender identities, based on the awareness of their performativity. On the other, the outcome contradicts this idea, generating a conservative and traditional representation despite its apparent progressive character, which is masked by technological dystopia.

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José Luis Valhondo Crego, Universidad de Extremadura

José Luis Valhondo-Crego es profesor en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación y la Comunicación de la Universidad de Extremadura. Se doctoró en Comunicación en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid y es Licenciado en Psicología en la Universidad de Salamanca y Master de Periodismo en la Universidad del País Vasco. Su línea de investigación está relacionada con la Comunicación Política, la Narrativa Cinematográfica y el storytellingcientífico

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