Spaces of Surveillance : States and Selves

Description

In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, watching and being watched are the salient features of the lives depicted in many of our cultural productions. This collection examines surveillance as it is portrayed in art, literature, film and popular culture, and makes the connection between our sense of ‘self’ and what is ‘seen’. In our post-panoptical world which purports to proffer freedom of movement, technology notes our movements and habits at every turn. Surveillance seeps out from businesses and power structures to blur the lines of security and confidentiality. This unsettling loss of privacy plays out in contemporary narratives, where the ‘selves’ we create are troubled by surveillance. This collection will appeal to scholars of media and cultural studies, contemporary literature, film and art and American studies. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Introduction (Susan Flynn, Antonia Mackay)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Equality and Erasure: Responses to Subject Negation in the Art of Jill Magid (Amy Christmas)....Pages 21-44 Camera Performed: Visualising the Behaviours of Technology in Digital Performance (Jaclyn Meloche)....Pages 45-63 ‘She’s not There’—Shallow Focus on Privacy, Surveillance, and Emerging Techno-Mediated Modes of Being in Spike Jonze’s Her (William Thomas McBride)....Pages 65-85 Surveillance in Zero Dark Thirty: Terrorism, Space and Identity (Frances Pheasant-Kelly)....Pages 87-104 To See and to Be Seen: Surveillance, the Vampiric Lens and the Undead Subject (Simon Bacon)....Pages 105-119 Front Matter ....Pages 121-121 Watching Through Windows: Bret Easton Ellis and Urban Surveillance (Alison Lutton)....Pages 123-136 Participating in ‘1984’: The Surveillance of Sousveillance from White Noise to Right Now (Caleb Andrew Milligan)....Pages 137-150 Surveillance in Post-Postmodern American Fiction: Dave Eggers’s The Circle, Jonathan Franzen’s Purity and Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story (Virginia Pignagnoli)....Pages 151-167 Surveilling Citizens: Claudia Rankine, From the First to the Second Person (Jeffrey Clapp)....Pages 169-184 Front Matter ....Pages 185-185 Castrating Blackness: Surveillance, Profiling and Management in the Canadian Context (Sam Tecle, Tapo Chimbganda, Francesca D’Amico, Yafet Tewelde)....Pages 187-210 Sousveillance as a Tool in US Civic Polity (Mary Ryan)....Pages 211-227 Medical Surveillance and Bodily Privacy: Secret Selves and Graph Diaspora (Susan Flynn)....Pages 229-243 Erratum to: Surveilling Citizens: Claudia Rankine, From the First to the Second Person (Jeffrey Clapp)....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter ....Pages 245-278