Closed circuits

Closed circuits: screening narrative surveillance

by Stewart, Garrett

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Long before the 2013 NSA scandal about electronic surveillance, narrative cinema had become a weathervane of social phobias in regard to national security, drawing on a long history of surveillance both as theme and as audiovisual machination that saw its first heyday with the Weimar cinema of Fritz Lang. This book's analytical return to apparatus theory, and especially to suture theory's contrapuntal logic of seeing unseen, contributes to a new view of digital optics in this regard: one of con…

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  • Full title :Closed circuits : screening narrative surveillance / Garrett Stewart.

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Long before the 2013 NSA scandal about electronic surveillance, narrative cinema had become a weathervane of social phobias in regard to national security, drawing on a long history of surveillance both as theme and as audiovisual machination that saw its first heyday with the Weimar cinema of Fritz Lang. This book's analytical return to apparatus theory, and especially to suture theory's contrapuntal logic of seeing unseen, contributes to a new view of digital optics in this regard: one of contemporary cinema's most urgent cultural as well as technological flashpoints.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2015

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xxi, 281 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780226201351, 022620135X
  • oclc:ocn906026178
  • LC Classification:PN1995.9.E38
  • Dewey Decimal:791.430973

Table of Contents

Preface: returns of theory -- Introduction: narrative spycams: a foreshortened view -- The prying "I" of montage -- Telescreen prose -- Feedback loops of the technopticon -- In plane sight -- The othering of lives -- Digital reconnaissance and wired war -- Retrospecular eyes -- Parallel world editing -- Postface: on mediation as interface.

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Subjects

Cinéma -- Histoire et critique. -- État… Criticism, interpretation, etc Electronic surveillance in motion pictu… Elektronisk övervakning i filmen Erzähltechnik Film Filmer -- historia Filmhistoria Motion pictures Motion pictures -- History and criticis… PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference Surveillance électronique au cinéma Teknikhistoria Überwachung United States

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Stewart, Garrett

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