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9780226201214 English 022620121X Explores a panoply of films, from M and Rear Window to The Conversation and The Bourne Legacy, to analyze the ways in which cinema has articulated the concept of surveillance. While it has long been a mainstay of the thriller, surveillance, the author argues, speaks to something more foundational in the very work of the camera., 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.", The recent uproar over NSA surveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been an indelible part of contemporary life for decades. And cinema has long been aware of its power--and potential for abuse. In Closed Circuits , Garrett Stewart explores a panoply of films, from M and Rear Window to The Conversation and The Bourne Legacy , to analyze the ways in which cinema has articulated the concept of surveillance. While it has long been a mainstay of the thriller, surveillance, Stewart argues, speaks to something more foundational in the very work of the camera. The shared axis of montage and espionage-- especially the way that point of view and editing techniques are designed to draw us in and make us forget the omnipresence of the camera--offers an entry point to larger questions about the politics of an oversight regime that is increasingly remote and robotic, a global technopticon. Dazzling in its breadth of reference, and far-reaching in its conclusions about both cinematic and real-world surveillance, Closed Circuits further confirms Garrett Stewart as among our leading theorists of narrative.
9780226201214 English 022620121X Explores a panoply of films, from M and Rear Window to The Conversation and The Bourne Legacy, to analyze the ways in which cinema has articulated the concept of surveillance. While it has long been a mainstay of the thriller, surveillance, the author argues, speaks to something more foundational in the very work of the camera., 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.", The recent uproar over NSA surveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been an indelible part of contemporary life for decades. And cinema has long been aware of its power--and potential for abuse. In Closed Circuits , Garrett Stewart explores a panoply of films, from M and Rear Window to The Conversation and The Bourne Legacy , to analyze the ways in which cinema has articulated the concept of surveillance. While it has long been a mainstay of the thriller, surveillance, Stewart argues, speaks to something more foundational in the very work of the camera. The shared axis of montage and espionage-- especially the way that point of view and editing techniques are designed to draw us in and make us forget the omnipresence of the camera--offers an entry point to larger questions about the politics of an oversight regime that is increasingly remote and robotic, a global technopticon. Dazzling in its breadth of reference, and far-reaching in its conclusions about both cinematic and real-world surveillance, Closed Circuits further confirms Garrett Stewart as among our leading theorists of narrative.