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Surveillance cinema

By Catherine , Zimmer

Book information

Publisher
New York University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781479864379, 9781479836673, 9781479876853, 1479876852
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2364529 bytes)
Series
Postmillennial pop
Pages
illustrations (black and white)\286
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Electronic surveillance in motion pictures

Description

In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema. Catherine Zimmer examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance. Drawing on the growing field of surveillance studies and the politics of contemporary monitoring practices, she demonstrates that screen narrative has served to organize political, racial, affective, and even material formations around and through surveillance.

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