Surveillance Cinema

by Catherine Zimmer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479836672
• ISBN13: 9781479836673
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"