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, Cache 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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