Illuminating Netflix's Dark

Stuart Joy is the course leader of film and television at Southampton Solent University. He is the author of The Traumatic Screen: The Films of Christopher Nolan (2020) and co-editor of The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible (2015), Through the Black Mirror: Reflections on the Digital Age (2019), Contemporary American Cinema: The Science Fiction Film (2022), and James Bond Will Return: Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise (Wallflower Press, 2024).Roy Hanney is an interdisciplinary researcher and practitioner with expertise in interactive storytelling, experience design, transmedia, and media practice education.

• .- “What We Know is a Drop”: Contextualizing Netflix’s Dark.- Part I: Time, Trauma, and Temporality.- “Everything is Now”: Dark, Trauma and the Sediments of Time.- Time Travel as a Meditation on Grief: Mourning and Memory in Dark.- Dark and the Ethics of Time Travel Television: Cyclical Temporal Loops, Non-Chronological Time and Quantum Entanglement.- Navigating the Nonlinear Narrative of Dark.- Incestuous, Intertemporal, and Intergenerational Relations: Comprehending the Incomprehensible Rules of the Dark Game.- Part II: Temporal Myths and Philosophical Mirrors.- Myth and Meaning in Dark.- Who’s Afraid of the Dark: Overcoming the Need to Know.- The Shock of the Real: Multiplicity of Self and Uncanny Time.- Part III: National Histories and Nuclear Futures.- Family and Heimat in Dark: Frustrated Fatherhood and the Burden of History.- Proliferating Risk, Stabilizing Selves: Risk, Trust, and the Nuclear Timescape in Dark.- Toxic Nostalgia in Dark.- Part IV: Mediating Dark: Aesthetics, Platform, and Form.- Patterns of Flux: Costume Design in Dark.- Auteurs in the Dark.