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Visibility and Control : Cameras and Certainty in Governing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heydon, Jeff, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Closed-circuit television in court proceedings--Canada.
- Closed-circuit television in court proceedings.
- Closed-circuit television in court proceedings--Great Britain.
- Closed-circuit television in police work--Canada.
- Closed-circuit television in police work.
- Closed-circuit television in police work--Great Britain.
- Closed-circuit television--Government policy--Canada.
- Closed-circuit television.
- Closed-circuit television--Government policy--Great Britain.
- Video surveillance--Law and legislation--Canada.
- Video surveillance.
- Video surveillance--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
- Video surveillance--Social aspects--Canada.
- Video surveillance--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Video surveillance--Law and legislation.
- Canada.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- Visibility and Control: Cameras and Certainty in Governing addresses the ways in which camera-produced images are used to support governmental authority in contemporary Western culture.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: The Image as Evidence
- Introduction: The "I," the Eye, and the Screen
- Notes
- Chapter 1: The History of CCTV in Great Britain and Canada
- Great Britain
- Canada
- Privacy
- Chapter 2: Theoretical Elements of Government Surveillance
- Legitimacy
- The Mediatization of Security
- Technology and Uncertainty
- Media
- Duplication
- Distance
- Signal Space
- Referential Space
- The Mechanism
- Chapter 3: CCTV and the Court System
- The Canadian Courts
- The British Courts
- Chapter 4: Theoretical Elements of CCTV as a Media Format
- The Gaze
- Being Viewed
- Delay
- Autoamputation
- Inversion
- Chapter 5: Speed Cameras, the Courts, and the Recorded Image as Positive Identification
- Testifying via CCTV
- Chapter 6: The Certainty in Images
- Part II: The Image as a Component of Governing
- Chapter 7: Governmentality and the CCTV Image
- Reception Leading to Government and Transmission
- Control
- Governmentality
- Chapter 8: Visibility and Control
- Control and Society
- Monitoring
- Chapter 9: The Performance of Governing
- Conduct
- Presence
- Visibility
- Chapter 10: Practices and the Distancing of Government from the Population
- Fragmentation/Representation
- Practices
- Chapter 11: Camera Surveillance as an Exercise of Power
- Multitude
- Violence
- Positioning
- Visibility/Invisibility
- Connections
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Films &
- Television Series
- Online Videos
- Court Cases and Legal Texts
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-3809-9
- 1-7936-1818-6
- OCLC:
- 1251741879
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