Surveillance on screen : monitoring contemporary films and television programs /

Drawing on the rapidly developing field of surveillance studies, this book examines television shows and films-including Lost, Survivor, Minority Report, Enemy of the State, and Nineteen Eighty-Four-that shape our experience of surveillance, both as watchers and as those being watched.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lefait, Sebastien, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.
Subjects:
Electronic surveillance in motion pictures.
Electronic surveillance on television.
Surveillance électronique au cinéma.
Surveillance électronique à la télévision.
ART > Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > Reference.
Electronic surveillance in motion pictures
Electronic surveillance on television
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Dystopian (super)panopticism: from Nineteen Eighty-Four to Orwellian films
  • Closed-circuit filmmaking: cinema in the age of panopticism come true
  • Audiovisual fiction and synoptic surveillance: the televisualisation of life
  • Cinema in the catoptic age: visions of a sousveillance world
  • Conclusion: surveillance screens "the new site of film."

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