Closed Circuits : Screening Narrative Surveillance / / Garrett Stewart

• Autore: Stewart Garrett
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.430973
• Soggetto topico: Electronic surveillance in motion pictures; Motion pictures - United States - History and criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: screening, surveillance, nsa, data, dataveillance, history, historical, privacy, controversy, controversial, contemporary, modern, abuse, cinema, film, analysis, critique, critical, rear window, hitchcock, filmmaker, director, story, the conversation, deja vu, source code, bourne legacy, performance, satire, social, culture, cultural, thriller, technology, genre, espionage, montage
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE: RETURNS OF THEORY -- INTRODUCTION: NARRATIVE SPYCAMS-A FORESHORTENED VIEW -- 1. THE PRYING "I" OF MONTAGE -- 2. TELESCREEN PROSE -- 3. FEEDBACK LOOPS OF THE TECHNOPTICON -- 4. IN PLANE SIGHT -- 5. THE OTHERING OF LIVES -- 6. DIGITAL RECONNAISSANCE AND WIRED WAR -- 7. RETROSPECULAR EYES -- 8. PARALLEL WORLD EDITING -- POSTFACE: ON MEDIATION AS INTERFACE -- NOTES -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The recent uproar over NSA dataveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been part of our lives for decades. And cinema has long been aware of its power-and potential for abuse. In Closed Circuits, Garrett Stewart analyzes a broad spectrum of films, from M and Rear Window through The Conversation to Déjà Vu, Source Code, and The Bourne Legacy, in which cinema has articulated-and performed-the drama of inspection's unreturned look. While mainstays of the thriller, both the act and the technology of surveillance, Stewart argues, speak to something more foundational in the very work of cinema. The shared axis of montage and espionage-with editing designed to draw us in and make us forget the omnipresence of the narrative camera-extends to larger questions about the politics of an oversight regime that is increasingly remote and robotic. To such a global technopticon, one telltale response is a proliferating mode of digitally enhanced "surveillancinema."
• Titolo autorizzato: Closed Circuits
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838251803321
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