Bender Legacies of the Degraded Image in Violent Digital Media

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-64459-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

This book undertakes a concentrated study of the impact of degraded and low-quality imagery in contemporary cinema and real-world portrayals of violence. Through a series of case studies, the book explores examples of corrupted digital imagery that range from mainstream cinema portrayals of drone warfare and infantry killing, through to real-world recordings of terrorist attacks and executions, as well as perpetrator-created murder videos live-streamed on the internet. Despite post-modernist concerns of cultural inurement during the seminal period of digitalized and virtualized killing in the 1990s, real-world reactions to violent media indicate that our culture is anything but desensitized to these media depictions. Against such a background, this book is a concentrated study of how these images are created and circulated in the contemporary media landscape and how the effect and affect of violent material is impacted by the low-resolution aesthetic.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bender, Stuart Marshall

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: They Shoot Pixels Don’t They? Killing Pixels From  Patriot Games  to  Collateral Murder  and  Call of Duty .- Chapter 3: Performing Murder on Live Television and Social Media.- Chapter 4: Rethinking the Aesthetics of Terror Videos.- Chapter 5: The Aesthetics of Sousveillance:  Redacted  (2007).- Chapter 6: Splats and Splashes: The Drone Warfare Genre and Digitally Mediated Trauma.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Stuart Marshall Bender is an Early Career Research Fellow at Curtin University, Australia, exploring the digital aesthetics of violence. A scholar and filmmaker, he has published work in The Journal of Popular Film & Television , M/C Journal , First Monday and had films screened in competition at a range of international festivals.