Closed Circuits : Screening Narrative Surveillance / Garrett Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Garrett, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic surveillance in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--United States--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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."

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Other Format:

Print version: Stewart, Garrett. Closed circuits : screening narrative surveillance.

OCLC:

906026178