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Author Lefait, Sebastien, 1976-

Title Surveillance on screen : monitoring contemporary films and television programs / Sebastien Lefait
Published Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 225 p.)
Contents Introduction -- Dystopian (super)panopticism: from Nineteen Eighty-Four to Orwellian films -- Closed-circuit filmmaking: cinema in the age of panopticism come true -- Audiovisual fiction and synoptic surveillance: the televisualisation of life -- Cinema in the catoptic age: visions of a sousveillance world -- Conclusion: surveillance screens "the new site of film."
Summary Drawing on the rapidly developing field of surveillance studies, this book examines television shows and films-including Lost, Survivor, Minority Report, Enemy of the State, and Nineteen Eighty-Four-that shape our experience of surveillance, both as watchers and as those being watched
Bibliography Includes bibliographical (p. 211-218) references, filmography (p. 219-220), and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Electronic surveillance in motion pictures.
Electronic surveillance on television.
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
Electronic surveillance in motion pictures
Electronic surveillance on television
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021679429
ISBN 9780810885912
0810885913
1283646242
9781283646246