LIVING AND DYING IN SAN JUNIPERO

Abstract

This article analyzes the episode San Junipero (2016), 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 Halbwachs) and mobile lives (Anthony Elliot and John Urry). 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.