{"product_id":"the-oa-9781800859425","title":"The OA","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreated by the team of Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, and starring Marling in the role of Prairie Johnston, the Netflix Originals series \u003ci\u003eThe OA \u003c\/i\u003e(2016–19) is a generically ambiguous, and ambitious, vehicle for exploring a variety of themes, chief among them identity, belief and the nature and construction of reality. Prairie claims that she has learned the secret of inter-dimensional travel after a near-death experience and subsequent imprisonment at the hands of a deranged scientist obsessed with that phenomenon – but is she a potentially unreliable narrator, a sincere one or, finally, a metafictional character playing a version of herself in a fictional drama?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Constellation discusses \u003ci\u003eThe OA\u003c\/i\u003e’s\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethematic concerns in the context of the creators’ earlier collaborations and in terms of influences on it, such as the work of David Lynch, particularly the TV series \u003ci\u003eTwin Peaks \u003c\/i\u003e(1990–2017) and the films \u003ci\u003eMulholland Drive \u003c\/i\u003e(2001) and \u003ci\u003eInland Empire \u003c\/i\u003e(2006), and comparable texts such as the Netflix Originals series \u003ci\u003eSense8 \u003c\/i\u003e(2015–18) and \u003ci\u003eManiac\u003c\/i\u003e (2018); the writings of Jorge Luis Borges and Philip K Dick. The discussion will be supported by sources from the fields of media and social theory, including the work of Jean Baudrillard, Steven Shaviro, Jodi Dean, Mark Fisher and Shoshana Zuboff. Negative criticisms of \u003ci\u003eThe OA \u003c\/i\u003ewill also be addressed, such as accusations of superficiality, which will be considered alongside the themes of deception, manipulation and artificiality identifiable in \u003ci\u003eThe OA \u003c\/i\u003especifically, and in Marling and Batmanglij’s wider oeuvre.        \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470072844631,"sku":"9781800859425","price":78.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800859425.jpg?v=1744897317","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-oa-9781800859425","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}