Abstract
This article analyzes the episode San Junipero (2016San Junipero. (2016). Direção: Owen Harris. Estados Unidos/Inglaterra: Netflix. 61 min., color.), directed by Owen Harris, part of the British series Black Mirror, in order to point out how the connection between death and technology appears, which is manifested in the use of the verb “to pass” and in the presence of a “nostalgic therapy” throughout the plot. The main methodological resource is to identify how such notions are built in the episode. In these terms, some concepts are mobilized, such as collective memory (Maurice HalbwachsHalbwachs, Maurice. (1990). A memória coletiva. São Paulo: Vértice.) and mobile lives (Anthony Elliot and John UrryElliot, Anthony & Urry, John. (2010). Mobile Lives. Nova Iorque: Routledge.). So that these concepts are debated, it is intended, therefore, an immanent analysis of the material, a process in which its expressive elements - framing, dialogues, songs, the characters’ clothes, among others - are particularly emphasised in order to identify the social groups present in the episode by means of a discussion centered in the sociology of cinema by Pierre Sorlin.
Keywords:
Sociology of audiovisual; Black Mirror; San Junipero; Death and technology; “To pass”