Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of quality television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about the effects of women s equality on men, masculinity, and the relationship between men and women. Drawing upon studies of contemporary television programs, including popular series viewed internationally such as Mad Men, The League, Hung, Breaking Bad, Louie, and Girls, this book explores the ways in which...

This book provides insight into why Black Mirror has garnered so much attention. Featuring international scholars, the book reverse-engineers Black Mirror episodes and invites readers to consider their own relationships with digital technology through the work of theorists including Foucault, Baudrillard, Debord, McLuhan, and Virilio.