Surveillance Cinema

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 onl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zimmer, Catherine (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York NYU Press 2015
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Postmillennial pop.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803296806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Author's Note""; ""Introduction: Surveillance Cinema in Theory and Practice""; ""1. Video Surveillance, Torture Porn, and Zones of Indistinction""; ""2. Commodified Surveillance: First-Person Cameras, the Internet, and Compulsive Documentation""; ""3. The Global Eye: Satellite, GPS, and the "Geopolitical Aesthetic"""; ""4. Temporality and Surveillance I: Terrorism Narratives and the Melancholic Security State""; ""5. Temporality and Surveillance II: Surveillance, Remediation, and Social Memory in Strange Days""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes"".