Metaphors of the future and the power of images in the British TV drama Spooks

Izgarjan, Aleksandra; Djurić, Dubravka

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2016.03.016

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“…CLA has been already used for the analysis of television series; in particular, the article by Izgarjan and Djurić (2016) about the metaphors of the future in the British drama Spooks (2002-2011) was useful to adjust the use of the method to the specificities of an audiovisual narrative. These authors recognize the difficulty of CLA for the interpretation of television; however, they consider valuable its cultural and interpretive approach of the future because it calls for an interpretation anchored in the historical contexts of the narrative itself.…”

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A Multilevel Analysis of the representations of Technology in «Years and Years»

Flores

Cornelio-Marí

2023

Communication & Society

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The analysis of science fiction narratives is valuable to explore possible futures. This article analyzes the representation of technology in the television series Years and Years (2019), a co-production by the BBC and HBO created by Russell T Davies. This audiovisual narrative depicts key problems of the present in a representation of the near future, enabling the identification of new socio-technological paradigms. We applied the method of Causal Layered Analysis (CLA), a prospective analytical tool used both for the study of diverse current phenomena and for the design of possible futures, which includes the levels of the litany, systemic causes, discourse/world vision, and myth/metaphor. The analysis showed that Years and Years offers a vision of a world in chaos, based on a global capitalist and technological project that threatens fundamental rights, and the existence of the human species. In the series, technologies are imbibed in all the fundamental systems of Western societies, pushing common people into obsolescence. Three narratives uphold the myth of the dominion of science and technology: the technological transcendence of human beings, the irrelevance of humans before technology, and the ubiquitous panopticon of digitized power. Through its bleak version of the future Y&Y puts into focus aspects of technological development that make us reflect critically and urgently about the present.

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A Multilevel Analysis of the representations of Technology in «Years and Years»

Flores

Cornelio-Marí

2023

Communication & Society

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“…This present discussion about the 'in' metaphorical preposition is motivated by Lakoff andJohnson's seminal work published in 1980/2003 as well as by the many publications written by other scholars who are also inspired by it. Investigations on metaphors have been conducted in many different fields of research, such as in behavioral science (Pendrous et al, 2020), artificial intelligence (Carbonell, Sánchez-Esguevillas, & Carro, 2016), general science (Beger, 2016;Roberts et al, 2019;Roldán-Riejos & Cuadrado, 2015), psychotherapy (Killick, Curry, & Myles, 2016), psychology (Bultmann et al, 2019;Raja, 2019), biology (Castellane & Paternotte, 2018;Kashkan et al, 2015), news discourse (Mujagić, 2018), politics (Alousque, 2015;Chan & Yap, 2015;Filipczuk-Rosińska, 2016;Yi, Koenig, & Roland, 2019), demographics (Catalano & Musolff, 2019), translation studies (Egan, 2015), comics (Domínguez, 2015;Forceville & Paling, 2018;Szawerna, 2018;Tasić & Stamenković, 2015), television series (Izgarjan & Djurić, 2016;Terry, 2019), computer programming (Pérez-Marín et al, 2020), and music (Mishankina & Zheleznyakova, 2015;Pannese, Rappaz, & Grandjean, 2016).…”

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I am falling in love, Ouch!: Ontological metaphors at work

Roselani

2020

Lingua Cultura

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The research aimed to track the distribution of in metaphors and explore their ontological function in the abstracts of English research articles in the sub-disciplines of theoretical linguistics and pragmatics. The lack of empirical evidence on the subject had become the inspiration to base the research on a corpus. The corpus consisted of 40 research article abstracts; 20 from Journal of Linguistics and another 20 from Journal of Pragmatics. By using a quantitative method, the results show that theoretical linguistics abstracts are more densely populated with ‘in’ metaphors. However, in terms of in-preposition phrase topic complement variations, they are less varied. Qualitatively, the results confirm a notion proposed by Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) that ‘in’ metaphors function cognitively by providing ontological status to abstract objects. Their existence proves to play an important role in academic texts.

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Representing public service and post-militariness inBodyguard(BBC, 2018)

Parry

2022

New Review of Film and Television Studies

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Metaphors of the future and the power of images in the British TV drama Spooks

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

A Multilevel Analysis of the representations of Technology in «Years and Years»

A Multilevel Analysis of the representations of Technology in «Years and Years»

I am falling in love, Ouch!: Ontological metaphors at work

Representing public service and post-militariness inBodyguard(BBC, 2018)

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