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Surveillance cinema / Catherine Zimmer
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Postmillennial PopPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 273 pages)ISBN:- 9781479876853
- 791.4302 791.43023
- PN1995.9.E38
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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 tPPN: PPN: 1916212654Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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.
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