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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 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.
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Examines the ways that surveillance has been represented in cinema over the last forty years, especially themes of voyeurism, ethics, trust, and control
Electronic surveillance in motion pictures --- Voyeurism in motion pictures. --- Surveillance électronique --- Voyeurisme --- Cinéma --- Au cinéma. --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Surveillance électronique --- Cinéma --- Au cinéma. --- Thèmes, motifs.
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How might we grasp the scope and variety of contemporary surveillance, its possibilities and threats? How have scholars addressed the topic? How has surveillance been understood in the past, and what can this awareness tell scholars and the public about the shape of things to come? Monitoring the Future addresses these questions by critically considering the utopian and dystopian literature and film that for decades has supplied provocative and illuminating depictions of surveillance, and responses to it. It goes beyond Orwell and Snowden to speculate on the shape of surveillance to come. Key Features:The first sustained account of the representation of surveillance in eutopian and dystopian literature and film * Charts surveillance's historical development and creative responses to that development * Provides a detailed critical account of the ways that surveillance studies has utilised utopias to formulate its ideas * Offers new readings of literary texts and films from More's Utopia through George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to Margaret Atwood' Oryx and Crake; and films from Fritz Lang's Metropolis to Neil Blomkamp's Elysium and beyond.
Utopias in literature --- Utopias in motion pictures --- Electronic surveillance in literature --- Electronic surveillance in motion pictures --- Electronic surveillance. --- Dystopias in literature. --- Dystopian films. --- Utopias in literature. --- Utopias in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Utopian literature --- Dystopia films --- Electronics in surveillance --- SIGINT (Electronic surveillance) --- Signals intelligence --- Surveillance, Electronic --- Remote sensing --- Electronic surveillance in literature. --- Electronic surveillance in motion pictures.
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Las fuentes de análisis para la sociología cultural son múltiples y pueden ser tan diversas como las obras literarias que se estudian aquí del escritor estadounidense Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), uno de los narradores de novelas y cuentos de ciencia ficción más importantes y revolucionarios del siglo xx. Sus escenarios futuristas muestran temas claves para entender el presente: el sentido de lo humano, la entropía de los mundos sociales y sus objetos, la guerra, los poderes políticos, la evolución humana. Destaca el tratamiento que da a los rostros de la otredad que se construyen a través de distintos dispositivos electrónicos de vigilancia: individuos y grupos que, por su condición humana o no humana, por su lenguaje, sus deseos, color de piel o situación geográfica, son controlados, excluidos y, en caso extremo, aniquilados. Los mundos que imagina no siempre son opresivos y asfixiantes, como algunos de las distopías futuristas de inspiración orwelleana. En sus textos, la vigilancia también sirve para resistir y defender la individualidad y la libertad, mientras se generan formas alternativas de solidaridad institucional y de cohesión social.
Science fiction --- Science fiction films --- Science fiction television programs --- Electronic surveillance in literature. --- Electronic surveillance in motion pictures. --- Electronic surveillance on television. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Dick, Philip K. --- Dick, Philip K. --- Dick, Philip K. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Film adaptations. --- Television adaptations.
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