Winner of the Surveillance Studies Network Book Award: 2017
Surveillance is a common feature of everyday life. But how are we
to make sense of or understand what surveillance is, how we should
feel about it, and what, if anything, can we do? Surveillance and
Film is an engaging and accessible book that maps out important
themes in how popular culture imagines surveillance by examining
key feature films that prominently address the subject. Drawing on
dozens of examples from around the world, J. Macgregor Wise
analyzes films that focus on those who watch (like Rear Window,
Peeping Tom, Disturbia, Gigante, and The Lives of Others), films
that focus on those who are watched (like The Conversation, Cache,
and Ed TV), films that feature surveillance societies (like 1984,
THX 1138, V for Vendetta, The Handmaid's Tale, The Truman Show, and
Minority Report), surveillance procedural films (from The Naked
City, to Hong Kong's Eye in the Sky, The Infernal Affairs Trilogy,
and the Overheard Trilogy of films), and films that interrogate the
aesthetics of the surveillance image itself (like Sliver, Dhobi
Ghat (Mumbai Diaries), Der Riese, and Look). Wise uses these films
to describe key models of understanding surveillance (like Big
Brother, Panopticism, or the Control Society) as well as to raise
issues of voyeurism, trust, ethics, technology, visibility,
identity, privacy, and control that are essential elements of
today's culture of surveillance. The text features questions for
further discussion as well as lists of additional films that engage
these topics.
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