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Surveillance on Screen - Monitoring Contemporary Films and Television Programs (Hardcover)
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Surveillance on Screen - Monitoring Contemporary Films and Television Programs (Hardcover)
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The theme of surveillance has become an increasingly common element
in movies and television shows, perhaps as a response to the sense
that the world is now virtually under watch. But the recent surge
of this filmic device calls for an explanation that transcends the
basic assumption that media illustrates the changes of society. The
persistent and growing presence of surveillance in cinematic
productions is not merely a reflection of the advent of
surveillance societies, but rather an aesthetic adaptation to the
evolution of watching patterns. In Surveillance on Screen:
Monitoring Contemporary Films and Television Programs, Sebastien
Lefait examines this ever-increasing phenomenon. Drawing on the
rapidly developing field of surveillance studies, Lefait offers an
in-depth analysis of television shows and films, which complement
current theoretical approaches to those subjects. This unique
combination of surveillance theories with the latest concepts of
film, television, and Internet studies is based on a large and
diversified range of popular series and films, including the shows
24, Lost, and Survivor as well as such films as Minority Report,
Paranormal Activity, The Truman Show, and the on-screen version of
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Written from a perspective
that does not limit itself to a "reflection-of-society" approach,
this book explores both how cinema shapes our experience of
surveillance and how surveillance influences our viewing of cinema.
Lefait follows the various identifiable stages in cinema's
experimental use of surveillance, studying the impact of technology
on both the watcher and the watched. In addition to film and media
studies, this book will be of interest to those engaged in
information technology, sociology, and, of course, surveillance
studies.
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