Cinema and Surveillance

The Asymmetric Gaze
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-13461-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Film Studies

Cinema and Surveillance: The Asymmetric Gaze shows how key modern filmmakers challenge and disturb the relation between film and surveillance, medium and message. Assembling readings of films by Harun Farocki, Michael Haneke, and Fritz Lang, the book considers surveillance in such different domains as urban life, religious doctrine, and law enforcement.

With surveillance present in the modern world as both a technological phenomenon and a social practice, the author shows how cinema, as a visual medium, presents highly sophisticated analyses of surveillance. He suggests that “surveillance” is less an issue to be tackled from a secure spectatorial position than an experience to be rendered, an event to be dealt with. Far from offering a general model of spectatorship, the book explores how narrative moments of surveillance are complicated by specific spectatorial responses.

In its intersection of well-known figures and a highly topical issue, this book will have broad appeal, especially, but not exclusively, among students and scholars in film studies, media studies, German studies, European studies, art history, and political theory.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blumenthal-Barby, Martin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Counter-Music: Farocki’s Theory of a New Image Type

2. Utterly Mysterious: Haneke’s Caché

3. “In the Name of the Law”: Lang’s M

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Blumenthal-Barby is a Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures at Rice University, where he also co-directs the Program in Cinema and Media Studies.