"Black Mirror – Bandersnatch" and/as Intermedial Performativity through TV Series, Cinema and Digital Transcodification

This essayexplores the intermedial and digital aspects of Bandersnatch, an interactive work partofthe Black Mirror series, released on Netflix between 2018 and 2020. Bandersnatch,a choose-your-own-adventure style video game,blur red the lines between film, video, and interactive digital storytelling,raising ques tions about its categorisation and reception. This studyexamines the intermedial challenges of taxonomy, the role of digital codes in its transcodification, and the implications of its intermedial performativity. By analysing the structure, design, and user experience of Bandersnatch,this research reveals the complexities of its interactive storytelling,includingthe influenceofmedia systems, technologies, and contexts on the user’schoices and perception. Furthermore,ithighlights the need fora transdisciplinary approach to understanding the hybridisation of media in Bandersnatch,recognising it as amacro-genre of transcodification that challenges traditionalforms, processes,and practicesofmedia cultures.