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Closed Circuits: Screening Narrative Surveillance
Garrett Stewart
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Description for Closed Circuits: Screening Narrative Surveillance
Paperback. Explores a panoply of films, from M and Rear Window to The Conversation and The Bourne Legacy, to analyze the ways in which cinema has articulated the concept of surveillance. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 24. Weight in Grams: 410.
The recent uproar over NSA surveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been an indelible part of contemporary life for decades. And cinema has long been aware of its power - and potential for abuse. In Closed Circuits, Garrett Stewart explores a panoply of films, from M and Rear Window to The Conversation and The Bourne Legacy, to analyze the ways in which cinema has articulated the concept of surveillance. While it has long been a mainstay of the thriller, surveillance, Stewart argues, speaks to something more foundational in the very work of the camera. The shared axis of ... Read more
The recent uproar over NSA surveillance can obscure the fact that surveillance has been an indelible part of contemporary life for decades. And cinema has long been aware of its power - and potential for abuse. In Closed Circuits, Garrett Stewart explores a panoply of films, from M and Rear Window to The Conversation and The Bourne Legacy, to analyze the ways in which cinema has articulated the concept of surveillance. While it has long been a mainstay of the thriller, surveillance, Stewart argues, speaks to something more foundational in the very work of the camera. The shared axis of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226201498
SKU
V9780226201498
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About Garrett Stewart
Garrett Stewart is the James O. Freedman Professor of Letters in the Department English at the University of Iowa and the author of numerous books on fiction and film.
Reviews for Closed Circuits: Screening Narrative Surveillance
"A remarkable book on the cinema of surveillance. It is as comfortable with settled masterpieces like M and Rear Window as it is with last week's blockbuster, and it knows the difference between them. Deeply informed by narrative theory, film theory, and media theory, the eye-opening arguments bear on issues of real moment in our time." (James Chandler, University of ... Read more