How Black Mirror: Striking Vipers Subverts Gender and Sexuality | Black Mirror Analysis

Black Mirror Season 5 was released just a couple of weeks ago and Striking Vipers, starring Anthony Mackie, kicks things off with style (and the following episodes, Smithereens and Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too, weren't too bad either). Having made a couple of Black Mirror analysis videos in the past, I thought I'd put some of the concepts surrounding queer theory, sexuality, gender and masculinity that we've begun to take a look at in my What the Theory? series into practice in unpacking this new episode and exploring the politics of new Black Mirror.

There are a bunch of "Black Mirror Striking Vipers Ending Explained" type videos out there already but, in this video essay, I take a slightly more theoretically-informed look at how the episode engages with ideas surrounding masculinity, gender and sexuality.

Further Reading

Masculinities by R.W. Connell
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Queer Theory: An Introduction by Annamarie Jagose
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