| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) |
| Series |
Postmillennial Pop |
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Postmillennial pop.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Surveillance cinema in theory and practice -- Video surveillance, torture porn, and zones of indistinction -- Commodified surveillance: first-person cameras, the internet, and compulsive documentation -- The global eye: satellite, GPS, and the "geopolitical aesthetic" -- Temporality and surveillance I: terrorism narratives and the melancholic security state -- Temporality and surveillance II: surveillance, remediation, and social memory in strange days -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
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 t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-259) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Electronic surveillance in motion pictures.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Electronic surveillance in motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781479876853 |
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1479876852 |
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