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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255093803321

Autore

Bender Stuart Marshall

Titolo

Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media / / by Stuart Marshall Bender

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319644592

3319644599

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (150 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

303.60943

Soggetti

Film genres

Communication

Motion pictures

Culture - Study and teaching

Genre Studies

Media and Communication

Film Theory

Close Readings in Film and TV

Cultural Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: They Shoot Pixels Don't They? Killing Pixels From Patriot Games to Collateral Murder and Call of Duty -- Chapter 3: Performing Murder on Live Television and Social Media -- Chapter 4: Rethinking the Aesthetics of Terror Videos -- Chapter 5: The Aesthetics of Sousveillance: Redacted (2007) -- Chapter 6: Splats and Splashes: The Drone Warfare Genre and Digitally Mediated Trauma -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema and real-world portrayals of violence. Through a series of case studies, the book explores examples of corrupted digital imagery that range from mainstream cinema portrayals of drone warfare and infantry killing,



through to real-world recordings of terrorist attacks and executions, as well as perpetrator-created murder videos live-streamed on the internet. Despite post-modernist concerns of cultural inurement during the seminal period of digitalized and virtualized killing in the 1990s, real-world reactions to violent media indicate that our culture is anything but desensitized to these media depictions. Against such a background, this book is a concentrated study of how these images are created and circulated in the contemporary media landscape and how the effect and affect of violent material is impacted by the low-resolution aesthetic. Stuart Marshall Bender is an Early Career Research Fellow at Curtin University, Australia, exploring the digital aesthetics of violence. A scholar and filmmaker, he has published work in The Journal of Popular Film & Television, M/C Journal, First Monday and had films screened in competition at a range of international festivals.