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OverviewIn 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 the politics of contemporary monitoring practices, she demonstrates that screen narrative has served to organize political, racial, affective, and even material formations around and through surveillance. She considers how popular culture forms are intertwined with the current political landscape in which the imagery of anxiety, suspicion, war, and torture has become part of daily life. From Enemy of the State and The Bourne Series to Saw, Caché and Zero Dark Thirty, Surveillance Cinema explores in detail the narrative tropes and stylistic practices that characterize contemporary films and television series about surveillance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine ZimmerPublisher: New York University Press Imprint: New York University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781479864379ISBN 10: 1479864374 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 03 April 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"vii Contents Acknowledgments ix Author's Note xi Introduction: Surveillance Cinema in Theory and Practice 1 1. Video Surveillance, Torture Porn, and Zones of Indistinction 31 2. Commodified Surveillance: First-Person Cameras, the Internet, and Compulsive Documentation 73 3. The Global Eye: Satellite, GPS, and the ""Geopolitical Aesthetic"" 115 4. Temporality and Surveillance I: Terrorism Narratives and the Melancholic Security State 157 5. Temporality and Surveillance II: Surveillance, Remediation, and Social Memory in Strange Days 181 Conclusion 209 Notes 221 Bibliography 251 Index 261 About the Author 273 9781479864379 zimmer text.indd 7 1/20/15 3:32 PM"ReviewsSurveillance Cinemapresents cutting-edge scholarship in the field of cinema studies in its reconceptualization of the centrality of surveillance to film narratives, subject formations, and temporalities. Smartly pushing beyond the critical models that have long been associated with surveillance in and outside of cinema, Zimmer makes a persuasive case for examining surveillance within historical and political contexts. An excellent book, both far-reaching and convincing in its claims, Surveillance Cinemais sure to become one of the central works in the emerging field of surveillance studies. -Aviva Briefel, co-editor of Horror after 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror Author InformationCatherine Zimmer is an Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies and English at Pace University in New York City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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