Reintegrating Severance: Interdisciplinary Insights on Apple TV’s Dystopian Thriller (2024)

By: Nora M. Isacoff and Jennifer Dawes

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Synopsis: This edited collection is an interdisciplinary examination of Apple TV's Severance, in which employees of a biotech firm consent to having their brains severed so that their work selves and non-work selves do not retain each other’s memories. What transpires is a reckoning with the very nature of the self, consciousness, and memory, through a series steeped in explorations of capitalism, social welfare, and bioethics. Chapters in this book examine the popularity and critical acclaim surrounding the show; its retrofuturistic asethetic; its commentary on popular culture and identity; and its engagement with nostalgia, among other topics.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031574481
Related ISBNs:: 9783031574474
Publisher:: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Addition:: 07/23/24
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Nora M. Isacoff
Edited by:: Jennifer Dawes